On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 08:30 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> Not really. But then again Mac OS 9 does the same thing. You can click > on > any partition on the Desktop and then choose "Initialize" from the > Special Menu and without a single word or warning the partition is > initialized! > > doug Well thats not true at all. First of all Mac OS 9 won't let you initialize the startup partition/disk at all. You have to boot from another volume/CD to do that. This is the prompt you get "The disk 'USS ENTERPRISE' could not be erased, because it is the startup disk, which contains the active system software." Next when you go to initialize a volume which you CAN format you get this warning "Completely erase 'DEEP SPACE NINE' (ATA Bus 0 Dev 0, v3.2.5)?" So as you can see you get warnings whenever you go to format a disk or drive for any reason under Mac OS 9. Where did you get the "without a single word or warning the partition is initialized" from? ------------------------------- Linux is Luke. FreeBSD is Yoda. -------------------------------
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