Formatted 1TB with Gparted, now super slow on XP

I used gparted to recreate the table & partition and formated to NTFS.  Now it takes 15 mins for XP to discover the drive and it then took 24 hours just to reach 1% when I tried formating with XP.

Is there something I removed by doing this and how to I get it back.
Thanks,

Charlie 

What specific settings did you use on the file system, partition table and sector size?

Sorry for the late responce, didn’t check the “email me” box.

I used Gparted to recreate the table,  It didn’t ask me any details.

I have tried to format with the WD formater but it fails.  I have no idea how to resolve this issue.

Don’t worry about the delay… Now, I’d start over on this case. Erase the partition on disk management and make a clean MBR NTFS partition with 512b allocation unit size. Best settings for XP.

Thanks for your help here.

I started a fresh.  I recreated the partition table with gparted, MSDOS, and formatted to NTFS on Linux computer.  I then placed it in the XP computer.  It took 5 minutes for the drive to be recognised.  Then I formated the drive on XP.  It has been running now 12 hours and only 5% complete.  SOmething is very wrong.

Did you try changing the cables? And what if you run WD’s DLG to run a full test on the drive?