Re: Format=Erase
David Gordon <[email protected]>
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On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Jim Seaman wrote: > Is to format a hard drive in OS 10.3.9 using disk utility the same as > erase? > I do not see any mention of format anywhere in Disk Utility 10.4.4 > > Thank you Yes, it's the same. However, with the default setting, it only writes a new file system, it does not remap all the sectors of the disc. To completely reformat and remap the drive, before you click Erase, click options and set it to write zeros to all the sectors. That will take some time but will give you a newly mapped drive with bad sectors locked out. - Dave ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/mjFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ________________________________________________________________________ Logic OT - new web forums! http://logic-users.org/forums/L-OT - Search the entire archive: http://logic-users.org/forums/L-OT/search - To UNSUBSCRIBE: email [email protected] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logic-ot/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/