There is a bug in Disk Utility where sometimes I have to quit and relaunch for new partitions to show up in DU. With Vista, I format a RAW drive from Vista DVD without using BootCamp Assistant.Īnything more than a minute is too long. Also, SoftRAID can be used to start zeroing a drive and cancel safely at any time. ) and zero the first/last 100 sectors so it is back to being just RAW disk. When I want to strip a drive of partitions, I turn to SoftRAID ( I never run as root, just normal administrative account. I suspect someone did something not by the book before you got to it. With MacFUSE you can even format MBR disk partitions as NTFS. Or, use the drive for Windows only as Master Boot Record in Disk Utility. I like to start off fresh, and just to be safe, reformat the drive from Partitions tab, set the table to GUID, create one new HFS+ partition.
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