Using Gparted to restore an outboard USB drive -- how long should this take?

[C Hamel]

On Monday 15 May 2006 22:52, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
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> > I'm only guessing, of course, but it seems there may be a prob w/the
> > hardware. I used to own a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDT & the HD on that was
> > reported as hda, not sda, for one thing.  For another, my 2.66ghz box
> > partitioned a 60GB drive in just a few seconds (via PQM from XP), b-4 I
> > decided to make it a single-boot box.
> >
> > Perhaps a little more info might help...?
> >
> > FWIW...
>
> But he's talking about an external USB drive, it *should* be an sda
> number...  As for how long it should take to repartition, sorry, I can't
> help you there.
>
> -Matt
I have used both fdisk & PQMagic.  The former took roughly a couple minutes to 
create six partitions; the latter took just a few seconds because I only 
created a couple.
-- 
	...CH
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