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Initializing external HDD

Initializing external HDD OS 9 2 posts Mar 2, 2011 — Mar 2, 2011

#1 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 - 22:30

I have an old 40 gig HD in a firewire enclosure that I want to reformat and repartition. OS 9 Drive Setup sees it on the FW bus, and it can be read and written to, but Drive Setup reports that it's not supported for initialization. Is there any workaround for this?

#2 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 - 22:39

I think that I used something called "patched disk utilities" or tools maybe.. let me look

yep. here it is

HTH

RP