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Zero Formatting in OSX Disc Utility
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In OS9's utility you could "low" or "zero" format a disc, taking hours. The OSX utility doesn't offer this, clearly doing a very "superficial" reformatting. If you want to zero all data, what is the method in OSX? Thanks...Peter
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If I'm understanding the hearsay correctly, 10.2.3's DiskUtility adds a zero disk function.
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Thanks Watura- I saw this mentioned in the 10.2.3 thread as well...Peter
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I don't find a "zero all data" in disk utility 10.3 (v88.11). I'm thinking a simple "erase" just destroys all directory data, allowing old files to be overwritten as if they weren't there, but they're not actually erased.
If there is a "zero" feature, could someone be so kind as to point out why I am missing it?
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under the "Erase" tab. Click the "Options" button.
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Originally posted by cowerd:
under the "Erase" tab. Click the "Options" button.
Duh. Options was greyed out because I only had a single partition selected instead of the whole drive. Apparently you can't zero just one partition.
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I can't find 'options' at all.
It's definetly not on my 'Erase' Tab.
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Originally posted by Sarc:
I can't find 'options' at all.
It's definetly not on my 'Erase' Tab.
Sarc
It's at the bottom of the erase tab, next to the Erase button. Isn't it?
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... You must select a hard disk or disk image (not simply a partition) different from the one you booted from in order for the "Options" to be active.
(Last edited by Sven G; Dec 22, 2002 at 05:30 AM.
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