Re: [WinMac] Use PC formatted HD on Mac

Liam Helmer(liamh[at]axion.net)
Mon, 11 Jan 99 07:17:44 -0800

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>Thanks for the information. My confusion came from that Hard Disk Toolkit
>list "low level" and "quick" as their format type in "auto initialize." How
>do you distinguish quick and low level initialization? One takes just a
>minute while the low level takes 1 hour (for a 4GB drive)?

A low level format sets each sector of the destination drive to 0 1st,
thereby detecting if there's any media problems (and, with good HD
programs, marking the bad sectors so you can safely use the drive). You'd
use that if you were troubleshooting a flaky drive, or if you wanted to
securely erase the data on a Hard Drive (it was used for confidential
info, and your selling the computer, for instance).

Cheers,
Liam

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