On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:01 AM, imaclist group wrote:

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> Date: Wed, Feb 4 2009 10:20 am
> From: michael bluestein
>
>
> Hello,  I have been reading these posts and I can use some help.
> First off I am very new to macs.  I know nothing about the disk
> utility.  I just thought that macs had flash drives made for them.  So
> I grabbed my sandisk and tried again to get it to work.  Now no drive
> shows up but system profiler recognizes it and it also shows up in the
> disk utility.  I cannot figure out how to use it.  Is there a website
> that will enlighten me.  I am just ignorant when it comes to macs.  I
> do not understand how the disk utility works.  It is all greek to me.
> Where can I get some info on using the disk utility.

With Disk Utility running where you can see the flash drive, use Help  
in the top menu bar.  Enter something like "format drive."  That  
should give you all the information you need to proceed.  I am using  
OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, but I believe the older versions give the same  
info.  Look for the page "Erasing a hard disk or volume."  That  
process will work for the flash drive.  Go for the Mac OS Extended  
option.  With a flash drive, you will not likely gain advantage from  
the "Journaled" option.

Al Poulin


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