Re: External hard drive formating problem

2017-11-18 Thread Arthur Gindin
…or use SuperDuper. A gindin (I monitor this website for my blind granddaughter) > 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. >

Re: External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
-Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Friday, 6 October 2017 8:43 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Cc: peel-the-ap...@groups.io > Subject: External hard drive forma

RE: External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
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

Re: External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
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

External hard drive formating problem

2017-10-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
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