>
> > If this is a new drive from seagate it would already be low level
>formatted.
>
>It was supposed to be new and I paid $149 for it.
>
>> I just got a Seagate Barracuda 9.1 GB drive and it was formatted already.
>
>I assumed it was HFS+ since the two back up drives are HFS+ but didn't realize
>it wasn't until I ran System Profiler and happened to notice it was
>formatted HFS.
>
>> You have to pick a choice for the kind of initializing you want. It
>> should show HFS and HFS+. Although I did that with mine and it only
>> showed HFS. So I purchased HardDisk Tool online and used it to
>> initialize the drive to HFS+.
>
>I tried HardDisk Tool and it didn't work either. I've tried Apple Drive Setup
>and DiskWarrior. I tried to run the Disk repair on HardDisk Tool and it said
>there were disk errors but wouldn't run the application.
>
>Linda
First things first.
Did you shutdown or restart the Mac while it was doing the Format before???
If so you may have rendered the drive useless!
NEVER interrupt a format in process!!!
Go ahead and try to low level format and check the box to write zero's,
this will parse out any bad blocks that may be on the drive.
This could take several hours depending on the size of your drive,
and the speed of your Mac.
You won't get a progress bar just the spinning ball.
If you don't get a choice of HFS or HFS+ just let the drive format HFS
Once it's done you can use a program Plus Optimizer to convert the drive
to the HFS+ format.
Aloha, Ken
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