Hi,
I am trying to format a new hard drive. It is an 80 GB USB Samsung drive.
I open up Disk Utilitiy, click on Erase, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the volume format, and press [Erase]. After a couple minutes I get the following message:
Disk Erase failed with the error
Input/output error
A similar thing happens when I try to Partition, except the message is Partition failed.
This is a new iMac with OS 10.5.6, 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB.
I haven't used Macs that much, so it's quite possible I'm going about this wrong... How do you format a new USB hard disk?
I am trying to format a new hard drive. It is an 80 GB USB Samsung drive.
I open up Disk Utilitiy, click on Erase, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the volume format, and press [Erase]. After a couple minutes I get the following message:
Disk Erase failed with the error
Input/output error
A similar thing happens when I try to Partition, except the message is Partition failed.
This is a new iMac with OS 10.5.6, 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB.
I haven't used Macs that much, so it's quite possible I'm going about this wrong... How do you format a new USB hard disk?