I assume your speaking about an IDE/ATA-HD???
You can zero a SCSI-HD.
Trying to zero an IDE/ATA-HD will destroy the HD.
Sign for happening this can be the ridiculous long time (52 hrs. IIRC) your
Mac is running this process.
I'm afraid you can forget about that HD.
BTW: Why will you zero that HD?
HTH,
Thanks Jo,
Yes, it's IDE in an external firewire box.
I'm not doing a low level format. It's just overwriting the data. How can this destroy it?
I did it to get rid of some troublesome Microsoft corruption that wouldn't go away with a partition deletion and a reformat.
This is not my drive. I'm just doing a favor and trying to understand what's happening. Thanks.
J. B.
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