Re: What happened to MS-DOS format in Disk Utility's "Erase?"
- From: see_signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon)
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:25:03 +0200
FPP <fredp51@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <071220052220215158%ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Slipface <ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Gang,
> > I didn't notice when it disappeared, but what happened to the MS-DOS
> > format option when erasing a disk in Disk Utility? I have a flash
> > drive that I use on my Macs and some Windows PCs at work, and I needed
> > to reformat it. I ended up doing it on a Win machine so I could retain
> > the FAT format (the manufacturer of the flash drive said to NOT use
> > FAT32). Would the "Unix file system" option be equivalent?
> >
> > thanks,
> > _d
>
> I'm running 10.4.2, and when I choose a partitioned volume, the option
> doesn't show up.
>
> When I choose the actual HD itself, I can format that as MS-DOS. For
> me, it's all or nothing...
I had this happen to me once under Panther, and there was no way to fix
it that I could find. Someone more unix-friendly than me could maybe
have figured it out, but for me it became the one and only time under
Mac OS X that I actually had to reinstall the OS because of a defective
function. Now it works, through TIger 10.4.3. I still don't know what
actually went wrong.
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