Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ErikRS Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: What app formats a hard disk? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:09:04 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <531cc05e$0$52827$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: solani.org 1394406544 10125 eJwNysERACEIA8CWRCFAOTnG9F+Ct++NA8OkI+ChUEFna5xTu8eY3YMSzVm8vpeUzPvPj1yDByglEfo= (9 Mar 2014 23:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 23:09:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2 X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXKNgi57gJ/59gwhD05xK1OJywwu6DMs+2vg6d71zStT0QNlFqWI5JBX8D5w/S In-Reply-To: <531cc05e$0$52827$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:hPkC9bDz6WmPR8krqVdAdtvYM+I= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQUBADAIALBKuMRBTv8I35QNbVxMTfT0HBAy7TCk6y1H58AbGols7q2rFaOOJXZs/ByyEVo= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:21433 Patty Winter wrote: > In article , > Brian Gordon wrote: >> >> That disk is dying, and I have ordered another one. I'm pretty sure I= will >> have to format that, too -- but I can't find a utility that does it :-= ( I'm >> pretty sure I used Disk Doctor, DiskTool Pro, or DiskWarrier before, b= ut none >> of them seem to have that option now. Neither man or apropos seem to = offer >> help either. >> >> What do I need? > > Am I missing something, or can you not simply hook up the drive > to your Mac and use the built-in Disk Utility app to reforma it? > Why did you need a third-party application last time? A PC formatted - MBR+FAT32 - will work fine just reading and writing to=20 the disk. But if you want to use it as a bootable backup disk and/or=20 with TimeMachine and most other backup tools I'm aware of such as=20 Synchronize! Pro, SuperDuper, Silverkeeper, CarbonCopy Cloner etc. can=20 not use the MBR/FAT32 formatting table An Intel based Mac needs GUID partition map to be able to boot and a=20 PowerPC Mac needs APM partition map... Cheers, Erik Richar4d --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard S=F8rensen, Member of ADC, NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~