Sorry for my partial post, I managed to hit the send key LOL. Yeah, I was saying... do a low level format. I believe Mac OS X does it when you set security options to write 0's over it. Either that, or I just checked, and OS X does have the dd utility built into it. You can load up the terminal, and I believe (it used to work on Linux), a command like the following should perform a complete reformat of the drive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your_hard_drive HTH, and I'm a little out of date iwth this stuff, so I could be talking absolute rubbish, so sorry if that is the case! :-D Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Okay. This is too weird. I turn my Mac off for the day, then return home > only to start it up again and find out that I cannot see my time machine > backup disk. I seem to get stuck when trying to repair the disk or erase it. > What in the world to do next? > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! > > Skype Name: > barefootedray -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
