[ddots-l] Re: SSD drives to which a Mac can't write

  • From: Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:13:01 -0400

command prompt, format command?



At 04:52 AM 8/5/2012, you wrote:
Now sitting at my XP machine and can't find a command to reformat this disk. where do I look?
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote:

> Apparently not. But I will try reformatting as FAT 32 on my XP machine and see if can recognize read and write to it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:30 AM, Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Can you not reformat the hard drive on the mac?
>>
>> On 8/5/12, Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Had same problem with thumb drive bought at same time. Mac would not >>> recognize or write to either becAuse, apparently, they were formatted in
>>> NTFS.
>>> K
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm writing here because I need this drive as the primary backup for my
>>> Pro Tools Rchive of a new CD.
>>> K
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Aug 5, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Guys,
>>>> I had a very disappointing experience today. I bought a 128GB SSD drive, >>>> only to learn that a Mac could not write to it. It was bad enough that I >>>> couldn't find an SSD drive with FireWire ports, but to find a drive that >>>> could only be written to buy a Windows computer? This was absolutely >>>> unacceptable. Does anyone know of an SSD drive with FireWire ports that
>>>> can be used by a Mac?
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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