- Jan 2, 2013
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Hello all,
I need to make an image of my laptop's ~700 GB HDD (of which I've only used ~100 GB).
I have a spare 1 TB HDD, but I think I a DBAN wipe I'd made on the spare had changed its format to something not FAT or NTFS* because Win7 couldn't recognize the HDD when I connected it as an external drive.
I used eXtended FDisk to successfully format the drive, but upon exiting the format tool, FDisk asked if I wanted to rewrite a new Partition Table. I don't know much about Partition Tables, but since I didn't have any important info to lose, I clicked yes thinking it was a necessary operation after partitioning/formatting.
Unfortunately the partition table rewrite has been stuck at 19% for about an hour, so can I safely quit the partition table update process without bricking my external HDD?
Thanks for the help.
*If I remember correctly, the format FDisk displayed before I reformatted was something named like "PRO" or "LOG" or "In".
I need to make an image of my laptop's ~700 GB HDD (of which I've only used ~100 GB).
I have a spare 1 TB HDD, but I think I a DBAN wipe I'd made on the spare had changed its format to something not FAT or NTFS* because Win7 couldn't recognize the HDD when I connected it as an external drive.
I used eXtended FDisk to successfully format the drive, but upon exiting the format tool, FDisk asked if I wanted to rewrite a new Partition Table. I don't know much about Partition Tables, but since I didn't have any important info to lose, I clicked yes thinking it was a necessary operation after partitioning/formatting.
Unfortunately the partition table rewrite has been stuck at 19% for about an hour, so can I safely quit the partition table update process without bricking my external HDD?
Thanks for the help.
*If I remember correctly, the format FDisk displayed before I reformatted was something named like "PRO" or "LOG" or "In".
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