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Offline Steve_J

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Reformat a hard drive
« on: May 11, 2007, 01:18:46 AM »
I have a FireWire hard drive that is giving me a lot of grief. I would like to completely reformat it. What is the best way to do this? I've tried erasing it using Disk Utility, but that did not get me anywhere.

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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2007, 02:39:45 AM »
Steve when you open Disk Utility click on the top drive not the named drive icon, your options will be available there.
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2007, 03:46:11 PM »
What happened when you tried to erase with Disk Utility?
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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2007, 10:02:06 PM »
QUOTE(tacit @ May 11 2007, 01:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What happened when you tried to erase with Disk Utility?


By selecting the top drive as suggested by sandbox and going to 'erase' mode, I was able to completely erase the entire drive. I had it write zeroes in all locations. This seems to have cleared up the problem. Time will tell. Thanks guys.
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