2008/10/27 Amanda Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All... > > I've been using some USB drives (Flash and "Real" Hard Discs) and > something caught my attention. In disc utility a USB drive has 2 > entries... the first shows the drive with the manufacturer's name > ie... Hitachi and it has a MS-DOS FAT Volume Format, the second entry > seems to be like a partition that can have any format. The disc > utility entry for the drive looks like this... (Missing the drive > icons and comments, of course!) > > 18.6 GB HITACHI_DK23CA-20 Media <-Can't erase > USB Portable <- Can erase > > When I try to erase the actual drive, the top level, it never works... > reverting to MS-DOS FAT. I can format the "partition" to anything Disc > utility has to offer. > > Is this normal? It's no big thing... just trying to understand the > nature of the beast! :-) > > Amanda
A hard disk can't be used "raw". It must be partitioned first, then the /partition/ is formatted and that's where your data goes. You're not seeing 2 entries side by side, you're seeing one inside the other. One is the physical drive, the other is the partition on that drive. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • Skype: liamproven • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
