external storage

I thought I posted this yesterday but it looks like it may not have. This is reworded.

Any input: I use two external WD Passport hard drives to save my show files; saving in 3 different locations. That's just the way I am. Anyway one of the drives has gone bad. The other one; a WD Passport Ultra drive takes forever to show up on my ION. When I boot the console with the drive connected it takes forever to boot. When I boot without the drive it boots normal time but then when I plug in the drive it takes forever to show up as a drive. That has never been answered.

My new question is this: I purchased a new "My Passport" WD 1tb drive to replace the bad drive and my ION won't see it at all. I'm guessing it's because it's a Windows 7 drive and I have to reformat it to XP. So what settings should I chose, if that's the case, that will work perfectly with my ION? it it's not a Windows 7 drive issue any input?

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