Trouble formating external drive

[subnet_rx]

I'm trying to access one of my backup external hard drives and it says it needs to be formatted all of the sudden. So, I try to format the drive, but after 8 hours, it only has one bar of progress using the Windows XP format utility. Is there anything else I can do here?

[Ebene]

click on the start button>right click my computer>manage >disk management>right click which drive you want to format>format

[TheMajor]

Hook it up as an internal harddrive, then format.