You might want to blank the drive first--no telling what little trivia might be lurking there. In any case that's what I'd do.
Drop into the Terminal and do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[drive] where [drive] is the correct designation as shown under /dev. Be careful you use the correct one! This will give you an unformatted drive that you can then install a file system on and format. hth Janina Krister Ekstrom writes: > Hi, > Sorry for cross posting but i need help with this strange problem. > I bought a 6 Tb hard drive and got it yesterday. > Upon connecting it to my iMac i noticed that the disk was formatted in NTFS, > which is a no go if you want the mac to be able to write to it so i thought i > would reformat it to a file system readable by the Mac. > I went into disk utility where i clicked on ”erase” which is the Macs name > for format. When all was said and done with deciding what format to have and > so on i clicked ”erase” and got this message: ”Action failed. Media kit > reports there is not enough space to perform this action. Action failed.” > This is a very rough translation from Swedish. > The disk has 6 unused terrabytes on it and Media kit claims there’s not > enough space? WTF? > So now i’m stuck with a hard disk that can’t be read because if you try > connecting the drive i get this: ”The computer is unable to read the drive, > please format” and a button that points to the disk utility which can’t > format because there’s ”not enough space to perform this action”. > What to do next? > /Krister > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:[email protected] Email: [email protected] Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
