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How do you reformat an external firewire drive from DOS to Mac?Posted by Michael Escher
I bought a couple of external firewire drives from Fry's, and as is common for Fry's, someone bought the drive, used it, returned it for their money back and left it with a bunch of material from a music video that they were cutting. They also formatted the drive to DOS. For some reason, disk utility will only let me erase it while keeping the DOS format. I want to format it to macintosh extended and don't want to purchase a new piece of software to do it. Any suggestions?
You can do it several ways. Simplest is to use UTILITES- disk utility in the apps folder.
Connect the drive to the computer. Turn it on . Open disk utility. In disk utility reformat it. Select your drive on the right- Click erase and it will give you a pull down I use the MacOX Journaled so that it has an HFS on it for recovery if needed. Cheers, John
John, if you read my post above, it says that I tried to use the disk utility to erase it and the only option that the program will give me for format is DOS. Again, disk utility will only let me format it as a DOS disk. I'm looking for either a work-around to get disk utility to format it as a mac disk or another freeware program that will let me do the same thing.
Yeah, I haven't noticed any case where it helped. Superstition, probably. Maybe a super-fragmented drive benefits from it? In any case, it takes something like two hours to format a 200GB drive versus just 10 seconds without Write Zeroes, so I'm guessing it's not a superstition that's worth it.
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