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Re: What app formats a hard disk?

From Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: What app formats a hard disk?
Date 2014-03-09 23:10 +0000
Organization Old Men With Beards
Message-ID <bo4anuF6vikU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <lfiefe$li0$1@panix1.panix.com> <DaGdnXGXhcnOW4HOnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@giganews.com> <lfih5d$9jm$1@reader1.panix.com>

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On 2014-03-09, Brian Gordon <briang@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <DaGdnXGXhcnOW4HOnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>On 2014.03.09, 15:12 , Brian Gordon wrote:
>>> A few years ago I bought an external disk for backups.  It came formatted for
>>> a PC, and gave me great pain until I reformatted it as a Mac f/s disk, after
>>> which all went well.
>>>
>>> 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, but none
>>> of them seem to have that option now.  Neither man or apropos seem to offer
>>> help either.
>>>
>>> What do I need?
>>
>>Disk Utility from your Applications folder.  (Spotlight "Disk utility"
>>will find and run it.)  Select the disk, erase, and select the format.
>>	[...]
>
> So "format" is a byproduct of "erase."  Not seeing the word "format as a
> command option had thrown me.  Thanks to all who took the time to make the
> suggestion.

Modern disk drives cannot be "formatted" in the old sense. They are factory
and permanetly formatted into 512 byte blocks.

The "Erase" function of Disk Utility writes an new, empty filesystem of the
type specified to the device or partition.

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What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 15:12 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-09 14:17 -0500
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 19:26 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-10 00:09 +0100
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 23:27 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2014-03-13 01:59 -0700
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 00:03 +1300
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-13 18:59 +0100
            Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 14:04 -0400
              Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 20:03 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 17:10 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:18 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 01:50 +0000
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 10:16 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:14 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 13:19 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-15 09:13 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 02:41 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 18:22 +0100
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 13:56 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 15:51 -0400
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 19:58 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 16:17 -0400
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 23:10 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-09 19:30 -0500
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:17 -0400
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-10 22:22 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-03-10 13:57 -0400

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