Formatting SSD takes forever (stuck)

So, I put a new SSD in my MacBook Pro (13", early 2011). Worked fine, formatted it and launched the restore. The problem was (I found out a day later) the backup drive was connected by USB before start up. Turns out, it copies at USB 1.1 speeds if done so, so the restore would take 4 days! I canceled the restore and tried again. But this time the erasing seemed to be stuck. After about 4 hours I canceled the restore again, to try formatting manually. Also manually formatting, by both Disk Utility or Terminal, seems to be stuck. Even after 6 hours the process was still at 50%. Trying to create a Logical Volume on the SSD returned an error: "unable to unmount the Disk", but when using the 'diskutil unmountDisk' command it unmounted just fine! Also, the S.M.A.R.T.-status is verified and checking the disk doesn't return any error. What could be the problem?
The SSD is a Crucial M500 480GB and is installed in the normal hard drive bay.

No, I just use normal formatting. I tried both erase and partitioning. Neither worked. Also, creating a Logical Volume on just the current (corrupt) partition (disk0s2) seems to unmount the disk fine, but also gets stuck forever in formatting.

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I just published my first website. The first page is all words and yet it takes forever to load. Why is this?
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The partitioning process takes forever to finish. What I mean is, it stays stuck partioning my HDD and the status bar never moves beyond a certain point. Sorry I havent been able to take a screenshot because I dont want to try again if by some off chance I can damage the drive without first consulting as to why this is happening.
I had partioned my drive a time in the past but had to delete it because of storage needs and didnt have the money to purchase a new drive.

160GB in chunks. And yet most errors are "some files cannot be removed, you need to restore to single HFS+"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystemfragmentation
So just 'nuke the drive and restore - SuperDuper.
Then try again.
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I wasn't sure where to ask this so i figured here.
I recently reformated and reinstalled Win2k on my system. Prior to the format I had no problem with Java, all apps started up in no time flat.
Now, just about any Java App (Netbeans and Azureus right now) take forever to start, upon executing the exe the program loads into memory and I can see the process there, but for about 2-3 minutes the programs will sit there and do nothing (no GUI loads). Like I said, I never had this problem before the format, and before the format my system was in worse condition than now.
I did some searching and I saw a post that sounded like the problem I had, the guy was having issues trying to get apps to start (they'd hang for him too) and I think they figured out that the problem was that IPv6 was blocked or sometihng and that java was waiting for the timeout before it tried ipv4. I don't know if this is my problem though (nor do I know how to check if it is). Any ideas on what might be causing the hang ups?
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Well I still haven't figured it out but I did find out about the "Profiler" and ran that on azureus (and realized it was a big mistake) but did find out that the major hang up seems to be in the initial loading of stuff (I think, I could be wrong.)
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Interpreted + native Method
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11.1% 1 Compilation
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I did notice the "Blocked" thing, is that refering to "blocking" calls? Or to something that wasn't allowed? Is that normal?
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I'd been banging my head against the wall for three days. I just realized every single sequence had a keyframe for time remapping where it was set for 100% speed the whole sequence, but went to 0% like 3 seconds after it ended. AND time remapping fx was unchecked (off). No idea why someone would put it there or why that would affect the rendering time of the whole sequence which is set for 100%... but apparently just toggling animation on that solved my problem. So here it is for if anyone else has the same problem.

Here's what Todd Kopriva said in another thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3813422#3813422
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For the issue, it seems one of services related to device stopped.
I suggest you check the services to see if they start.
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We can try testing if the method in Windows 7 can work on Windows 8.1 computer.
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C!

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Thanks for your reply, Linc Davis.
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