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Sep 21, 2013 4:49 PM in response to aheart4god22by Allan Eckert,Do you actually mean "journal" and not format?
Hoow is the hard drive currently formatted?
Allan
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Sep 21, 2013 5:19 PM in response to Allan Eckertby aheart4god22,It says MS-DOS Fat 32, or something like that. I have been told to set it to extended( journaled)
I can get into the utility disk, then I'm stuck. I tried a few things, but the icon is not showing up on my desktop now.
Can you help?
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Sep 21, 2013 5:33 PM in response to aheart4god22by Allan Eckert,★HelpfulTry http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2355?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Remember that reformat will wipe out all data on the disk drive. So backup any data you wish to keep first.
Allan
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Sep 21, 2013 5:34 PM in response to Allan Eckertby aheart4god22,OK, I'll try it. Thank You. No data to back up on this new hard drive.
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Sep 21, 2013 5:42 PM in response to aheart4god22by Allan Eckert,★HelpfulYou are welcome.
I suspected that it was new but I always feel better suggesting a backup before a reformat just in case.
Allan
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Sep 22, 2013 2:54 AM in response to aheart4god22by aheart4god22,Thank you for your help. I Really appreciate it.
John