I've done this many times and it normally takes a few hours. My wife's iMac is 3 years old and has never been reformatted. About 4 hours ago, I used Disk Utility and selected the option to do One Pass of Writing Zeros (not 7). The estimated time keeps getting longer and longer and now it says 2 days 12 hours.
Does anyone have any idea why this is taking so long? The hard drive isn't that big. If I turn off the iMac and try to restart the process, do you think that would make it run faster?
She needs to use it for work tomorrow and we cannot wait until Tuesday night before installing OS X and all of the Applications that she needs.
Does anyone have any idea why this is taking so long? The hard drive isn't that big. If I turn off the iMac and try to restart the process, do you think that would make it run faster?
She needs to use it for work tomorrow and we cannot wait until Tuesday night before installing OS X and all of the Applications that she needs.