So I got myself a nice new 250GB laptop hard drive, and an external USB enclosure for it. Well, first thing's first, this thing ain't formatted, so I went to do that. I figured it's a first format, I should do it the proper way, so of course no "quick format". It took literally 2 hours. Alright fine, gonna do some file transferring and sh- aww...well silly me, during a file transfer I unplugged one of the two USB cables, so now the files that were transferring are corrupt and I go "alright, I'll just reformat it, I don't feel like selectively deleting. I'll just quick format... wait a minute. Could there be errors on the disk now? Nah, I'm sure it's fine....
But WHAT IF??"
So now I'm waiting on the second full format of the day. 4 hours of a bright blue LED flashing rapidly in the corner of my eye. *sigh*