I just got an external hard drive (250GB Maxtor) and am in the process of formatting it, it has been formatting for over an hour and is only at 1%.
I was just wondering if this is normal or if there is something wrong, and if there is something wrong how did I go about fixing it?
System Specs
1.4 Ghz Centrino
512 MB ram
USB 2.0
Win XP Home
And help would be appriciated and thanks in advance.

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