On Nov 3, 2007, at 21:33 PM, cb wrote:
Then click the Partition button. That will partition and format the
drive. If you are confident the drive is good, that is all you need
to do. If you are not confident, you can go to the Erase tab, set
the Volume Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), click the Security
Options button and set it to Zero All Data, then format it. That
will walk the drive writing zeros to every single block, which will
exercise them and map out any bad blocks it finds.
Now your drive is ready for Mac use.
Well, you managed to give me info that I could use and get things
done in the space of minutes that it was taking me hours to run down
and find, in much less accessible form, on the internet. Thanks!
Only thing I have to figure out now is what to delete from the Time
Machine backup that went onto the hard drive at 0759 this morning,
since it appears to have done it TWICE and I don't want to use up all
that space on the drive with a duplicate copy. Hard decisions, what
to kill and what to keep.
If you are using Leopard (I read your other post, but I wasn't clear
if you ended with Leopard or rolled back to 10.4). Then just turn on
Time Machine and let it do all the backup work for you. If you are
not using Leopard, then I recommend you check out either SuperDuper
or CarbonCopyCloner (even if you are using Time Machine in 10.5, you
may still want to check out the other two as they will make bootable
clones of your drive, which can be really handy should your main
drive fail, you can just boot off your backup and be back up and
running that fast).
I'm still in Leopard, was committed to it and am sticking with it,
seems to run fine in just about every way now.
But I'm NOT happy with the fact that it seems to have NO word
processing program in it, aside from Textedit, and when I tried to run
an old file it told me that Classic wasn't supported, which seems
strange since the file was made in Appleworks 6 and ran on OS 10.4
Tiger just fine.
So what are we supposed to use for word processing and to replace
Appleworks now? I admit that I've hardly scratched the surface of
this thing, having been so busy fixing the problems I had loading it,
so haven't done much reading about it to know Leopard at all. Are we
going to have to buy iLife 08 or what?
Thanks again for your help, Chris! - Charles
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