Re: Rockwell - "but what about Godwin's"

On 9/16/09 11:36 , DG wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:

On 9/16/09 11:06 , DG wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:

I dropped a fresh 1.5TB into my Mac and it found and formatted
the drive in a few minutes.

The primary difference between Windows and Mac, in this process,
is, the tools for adding, switching, modifying a drive are all
built-in to the O/S on a Mac. Under most Windows systems they
require third party, and often proprietary, software.


No.

Right click my computer> Manage> Storage... etc.

No third party software required.


I did say 'most.'


Maybe I'm ignorant but which MSFT OS requires third party software to
format a hard drive?



Ah..I see the confusion. I wasn't referring to simple formatting, as much as I was about cloning a drive for replacement or transferring contents to a new drive.

You can format a drive from the early DOS days without additional software.

But if you want to transfer contents to a new drive, add, delete or modify a partition, you need a third party application under Windows, whereas the Mac O/S has the utiltities for this built in.

The processes are reasonably close to being the same, and take the same amount of time depending on machine parameters.

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