[DM-MUG] Low Level Format

Douglas haefele at mchsi.com
Sat Aug 19 22:36:09 CDT 2006


How about a reformat first with one of the System 9 utilities?
If you can reformat the drive with a classic tool an update to OS X  
is simple.


On Aug 19, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Martin Gary Hood wrote:

> The drive will display on Apple disk Utility but you can't select  
> the drive.
>  I have tried Drive 10 and Disk Warrior and both programs can see  
> it but
> won't try to repair it. The problem started when Disk Warrior was  
> writing
> a replacement file and I had the electricity flicker for a second  
> or two.
> Since that time the drive won't mount on the desktop and my utilities
> can't do anything with it.
>
> Gary
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