…or use SuperDuper.
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> On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:43 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Sorry for cross posting but i need help with this strange problem.
> I bought a 6 Tb hard drive and got it yesterday.
>
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> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom
> Sent: Friday, 6 October 2017 8:43 PM
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> Subject: External hard drive forma
Subject: External hard drive formating problem
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
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
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