need help with a new hdd in osx

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

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hi i have a metal gear box usb type thing (like an icybox) and i just bought a new 250gb hdd to put in it as replacement for the 80gb i had before. anyway after doing so and turning on the hdd enclosure osx says its unreadable and asks to initialize it. however the program it uses 'disk utility' freezes whenever i try to format or partition the space..

is there any other program i can use to format the hdd to a mac osx format? or can anyone offer any other advice?


thanks
 
Ghost in the Shell said:
hi i have a metal gear box usb type thing (like an icybox) and i just bought a new 250gb hdd to put in it as replacement for the 80gb i had before. anyway after doing so and turning on the hdd enclosure osx says its unreadable and asks to initialize it. however the program it uses 'disk utility' freezes whenever i try to format or partition the space..

is there any other program i can use to format the hdd to a mac osx format? or can anyone offer any other advice?


thanks
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How long did you leave it for? IIRC the same thing happened while I was doing my 320Gb HD in an IcyBox.

Is the HD in 100% working order? Could be an issue... :)
 
i left it for a few minutes but the hdd isnt showing any activity so i cant tell if its just frozen completely..? i have a windows laptop i could use to format it if that might help?

the hdd is brand new so im sure its fine.

are there any other formatting programs i could use?
 
Ghost in the Shell said:
right its still not working as it just froze after completing the zeroing out.

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP ME HOW CAN I INITIALIZE THE DRIVE TO OS X FORMAT... ARGHH!
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:( Try the windows thing, but I suspect it could be a buggered HD :(
 
Try booting in to the OS X dvd and use Disk utility from there.

This way you are not using your regular HDD, and you shouldn't have an issue with freezing.

Failing that possibly you could try a terminal command to erase the HDD (assuming OS X can detect it), but I would only try that if your confident enough to use the terminal
 
EVH said:
Try booting in to the OS X dvd and use Disk utility from there.

This way you are not using your regular HDD, and you shouldn't have an issue with freezing.

Failing that possibly you could try a terminal command to erase the HDD (assuming OS X can detect it), but I would only try that if your confident enough to use the terminal
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great suggest ill give it a try
 
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