[progpoet]

Hi all -

I posted this on the OS X board too, but just in case that wasn't the right place for it, I'm posting it here as well. I hope you all don't mind.

I just got a 1 TB Western Digital My Book Essential Edition external hard drive and now I'm formatting it. At least, I think I am. I'm not sure I'm doing it right. In Disk Utility it says "newfs_hfs: /dev/partition size not a multiple of 4k and the progress bar keeps moving along, but I can't tell if anything is actually happening. It also says the drive isn't mounted although I have it plugged into a USB port.

Please help me to understand what I'm doing, if I'm doing anything wrong, and if I am, how I can do it right. I bought this for the express purpose of backing up my entire system with Time Machine and I will be EXTREMELY upset if I've messed things up right from the start.

Thanks in advance for any and all helpful responses.


-- Jeff

[reader50]

Please do not cross-post your question in multiple forums. The one in Mac OS is in the right place, and I've tried to answer it there.