Thanks to all who replied. It's a Maxtor disk, and the Mac version of
one-touch backup software was running. That's why it wouldn't erased.
After quitting one-touch I was able to reformat it.
Paul
On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
P N Stenquist wrote:
I picked up a 500 gig Maxtor drive for next to nothing. I hooked it
up to my IMac 24, and system 10.5 recognizes it, and I can access
the files that are on it. But I want to erase it. It's formated
with MSDOS FAT, and the Mac disk utility won't erase it. What do I
need to reformat it to Mac Extended?
Paul
Won't erase it? That's odd. Unless the drive is somehow write-
protected the Disk Utility will happily reformat *any* mountable
volume you present it with. Make sure you select the drive itself
and not one of its existing volumes when you try to select Erase.
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the type, and don't bother
with Erase Free Space or the security options.
-bmw
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