Carnage, That did the trick. I have never used gparted before so plz bare with me. I selected the OS, the chose partition, then NTFS. I then saw at the bottom of the GUI and it said Format /dev/sdb1 as NTFS which was what I wanted and below that it said 1 operation pending. Am I suppose to do something after that or just wait for a bit and then it will take off? What does the screen look like once it starts to format? Also, taking your best guess, how long should a 80 GB HD take to format?
thx