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Sonic Dude
May 6, 2009
The format should take less than a minute. Maybe 10-15 seconds on a new drive. What it sounds like to me is that you have a bad hard drive cable. That happened a TON on the 2009-2012 models (I was replacing 5+ a day for a while) and produced nearly identical results.

Get ye to an AASP and have them take a look. Cables are around $25 USD, plus very minor labor; I wouldn't assume they would be much more expensive in other countries.

Your old drive might even be OK. Sometimes the cable shorting takes the drive out with it, though.

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