Disk ultility taking longer than normal

I just got an external hard drive. I want to convert it to Mac os x journaled so I can run back ups on it. I clicked erase and convert and for the past hour it has been "unmounting" the disk. It is showing he striped white and blue bar in stead of the solid blue. The application is responding fine. Just wondering if that's normal not to see the solid blue progress bar for so long. Also wondering how long it will take to erase and convert (there is nothingon it)? -thanks.

Hit the Skip button if there is one, if not then you may have to wait it out.
To only reset the Partition Map Scheme and Format for OS X without erasing the drive.
1. Highlight the new HD in the list of drives and select the Partition tab.
2. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition and click on the Options... button.
3. Select GUID Partition Table in the drop down window and click OK.
4. Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), name it and click the Apply button.

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