question for technically savvy mac user (g0rman?)

Se7en · 07-04-2005, 10:03 AM

ok so yesterday evening i decided i was going to wipe my external hard drive and reformat it...just to put it on a clean slate or whatever. so anyway, i fired up disk utility and started a zero bit reformat of the drive. by the time i went to bed it was about halfway complete but i noticed that it had made no progress in the past hour or more. i woke up this morning to find that no progress had been made over the course of 9 hours. so i force quit disk utility (probably my fatal error) and tried to start over. disk utility won't recognize the drive now. is there anyway i can fix this or did i is my external drive now completely FUBAR?

Se7en · 07-04-2005, 10:19 AM

well i connected it with a firewire cable instead of the usb 2.0 and my computer immediately told me i connected a drive without any volumes on it. i initialized and everything appears to be a-ok now.

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beau2ifulday · 07-04-2005, 10:20 AM

glad you got it sorted. Computer problems are one of the most frustrating things

Se7en · 07-04-2005, 10:27 AM

danke schöne.

**neutral** · 07-04-2005, 10:30 AM

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07-04-2005, 10:03 AM	#1
Se7en Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: all around in the dark - everywhere Posts: 3,531 Local Time: 03:17 AM	question for technically savvy mac user (g0rman?) ok so yesterday evening i decided i was going to wipe my external hard drive and reformat it...just to put it on a clean slate or whatever. so anyway, i fired up disk utility and started a zero bit reformat of the drive. by the time i went to bed it was about halfway complete but i noticed that it had made no progress in the past hour or more. i woke up this morning to find that no progress had been made over the course of 9 hours. so i force quit disk utility (probably my fatal error) and tried to start over. disk utility won't recognize the drive now. is there anyway i can fix this or did i is my external drive now completely FUBAR? __________________

07-04-2005, 10:19 AM	#2
Se7en Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: all around in the dark - everywhere Posts: 3,531 Local Time: 03:17 AM	well i connected it with a firewire cable instead of the usb 2.0 and my computer immediately told me i connected a drive without any volumes on it. i initialized and everything appears to be a-ok now. a mod can close this thread if they so desire. __________________

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07-04-2005, 10:20 AM	#3
beau2ifulday Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 5,512 Local Time: 08:17 AM	glad you got it sorted. Computer problems are one of the most frustrating things

07-04-2005, 10:27 AM	#4
Se7en Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: all around in the dark - everywhere Posts: 3,531 Local Time: 03:17 AM	danke schöne.