On Feb 20, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote:
I'm going to send my mom a few zip disks from the pile and though
it would be nice to format them for her.
They are currently MSDOS formatted (fat16).
I'd like to format them for her Wallstreet (OS 9.2.2).
I opened disk utility and could see the zip disk and erase it but
couldn't change the format.
Is this even possible?
Perhaps all zip disks are DOS formatted?
For that matter is there any advantage to one format over the other?
When you look in Disk utility you see the device and the volume.
For example, if I fire up Disk Utility I see:
37.3 GB Prolific PL3507 Combo device
Pocket Rocket
That's my 2.5" Firewire external drive. "37.3 GB Prolific " is the
device, "Pocket Rocket" is the volume on that formatted device. I can
change the format of DOS formatted devices, but not DOS formatted
volumes.
If it were DOS formatted, and I select "Pocket Rocket" all I can do
is reformat it as MS DOS. If I select "37.3 GB Prolific..." I can
select Mac HFS+ or any other supported format.
That said, DOS formatting is likely the most useful, since it's then
readable on multiple plateforms, and HFS+ doesn't get you anything
more on a 100MB disk.
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