[DM-MUG] How to reformat a travel drive

[Victoria L. Herring]

>More info needed. Flash drive? External notebook drive connected via 
>USB? Connected to your G5 or other?

it's one of those little usb drives that you plug into a usb port.... 
it does show up on the desktop but won't erase or be initialized...I 
did this on a port of my iMac G5 =-- will try another when time 
permits

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>Tried plugging it into a different USB port? Some ports on the G5 
>(and hubs) don't always operate the same. DON'T use the front port, 
>or keyboard, of the G5 if you're having problems. Try a Cinema 
>Display or directly connect it to the rear G5/Mac ports.
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>Matthew
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>On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
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>>I have a USB travel drive and need to reformat it to empty it out 
>>and copy new stuff to it but on trying to use Disk Utility it is 
>>greyed out, can't Erase by selecting either the actual drive or the 
>>name under it in the list on the left.  I have tried to both ignore 
>>and not ignore ownership and to reset the owners, no dice [keep 
>>getting error 195 which doesn't solve the problem] - it is not 
>>locked and the Get Info says it is read and writable but I can't do 
>>anything with it == how can I get it  back to writable shape as if 
>>new???  Thanks.
>>--
>>Victoria L. Herring
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>Matthew Wheeler
>Acting Vice President
>Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
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