Formatting everything – Please advise…

[Steve Eisen]

Look for Mac OS Extended turn Journaling off.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Josh Evans]

Ok thanks, thats what i thought.

cheers.

[Rafael Amador]

Josh,
Zeroing is just to make sure that any trace of any document is overwrited.
I don’t see this very necessary, unless you have state secrets and you are afraid that somebody will still your HD and recover the information:-)
And a “zeroing’ in deep, takes ages.
If you are going to format your external HDs, check Mac OX Extended (NOT JOURNALED).
If you will re-install your system, the installer will format the HD as Mac OX Extended Journaled. About the HFS+ you don’t have to worry. All the Mac OX Extended options formats as HFS+. Only the FAT32 option don’t.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Tom Wolsky]

You should zero out drives that have ben previously formatted as DOS and used. Even if there are no state secrets on it, you should do this. Erasing a drive simply dumps the directory. I was told that because DOS formatting using a different directory structure, parts of it will get left behind on the drive and can cause problems. Segments will still have DOS directory information on it that will not be written over.

All the best,

Tom

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Steve Eisen] “turn Journaling off.”

Here we go with this again.

This is not necessarily true. Journaling does not need to be off.

What kind of externals do you have, Josh?