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Format Hard Drive
Name: mattbvd Date: March 30, 2007 at 10:15:36 Pacific OS: 9.0 CPU/Ram: G3
Comment:
Does anyone know how to format a hard drive for Mac OS 9? I have a secondary hard drive that I want to wipe and start fresh.
Name: zoddy Date: March 30, 2007 at 11:52:41 Pacific
Reply:
Use the Drive setup program. Its usually in the applications folder, utilities folder. IF you dont have it, you may have to find it on the OS9 installation CD.
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Response Number 2
Name: dominicus Date: March 31, 2007 at 05:57:28 Pacific
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The mac os9 equivelent of a PC format is in the 'options' or advanced tab in drive setup - I cant remember what its called offhand, but it'a a button that when pressed has two options, zero all data, and 'do a low level format'. Can take a very long time tho, as it rebuilds the drive tables one sector at a time! It's usually not neccesary though, as 'erase disk' from the finder special menu works fine..all it does is erase the file information on the disk, but that's usually enough..it's still blank.
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