[G4] Erasing a Hard Drive

[Paul Moortgat]

Startup with your install CD/DVD and format it from there.

Paul Moortgat

On 11 May 2006, at 07:41, Ron Michael wrote:

> I'm trying to erase/reformat a Hitatchi 80gig hard drive in my  
> mirror door G4, 1.25mhz, which is not my primary system drive. I  
> had formatted it MS-DOS with the intention of taking it out and  
> making it an external drive for my laptop. I changed my mind. Now I  
> want to reformat it with Mac HFS. I tried using Disk Utility Erase  
> function and it won't let me. Says it can't unmount the drive. Any  
> suggestions? Any other program that might handle this for me. I've  
> got Disk Warrior and the drive won't show up there either.
> Thanks.
> Ron in Memphis