i bought norton ghost (latest) version, found that after much waiting (over 2 days!), it kinda stopped (some error problem) and now I find the bloody back-up took near 90 gb of my external what is...

probably 1 tb ac powered drive. these days everything takes too much space, my computer takes ages to boot.

"I, too, am the proud owner of two WD 1TB drives (green)- both set up as USB. Each took about 12 hours to format" - what do you mean by that, dont they all usb cabled, apart from few firewire ones....

how else do i format???

I am a proud owner of a hp laptop for the last 9 months. It has 160gb hard drive. Unfortunately, it's storage capacity is coming to an end. What external hard-drive should I get? I prefer non AC...