On Mar 13, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Fred Thiel wrote:
I have a friend at work who had his PC die probably from a virus. He bought a new one, but I told him he might be able to reformat his old HD and use it for extra storage. He doesn't know very much at all about computers, so I offered to try to help him. Is there a way to take his old probably infected HD and reformat it with my G4 Quicksilver Tiger OS 10.4.11 so it will work with an external enclosure connected to his PC? I don't know what it is infected with, and I don't want to risk infecting his new one if I can't completely wipe it clean. If anyone has had some experience with this problem, I would be grateful for any advice.
Put it in the external enclosure, plug it in to the Mac, fire up Disk Utility, select the drive and erase the disk in MS DOS format. You can repartition the thing if you really want but just erasing the drive will do just fine.
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