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<blockquote data-quote="Al.Pothoof" data-source="post: 1072408" data-attributes="member: 162872"><p>hughvane:</p><p></p><p>My assumption is that "current" scheme was 1 partition; the other two drives (system disk and 1TB external) are both single partition drives. If she had selected one of those by accident, wouldn't it have been wiped completely? It appears only "some files" from the system disk are missing.</p><p></p><p>But you raise an interesting question: what is "current" on a fresh drive formatted for a PC?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>harryb2448:</p><p></p><p>The format selected was for Mac OS extended (the only option since we didn't want DOS and can't use GUID: this is a Motorola Mac, not an Intel Mac). That was selected both times.</p><p></p><p>I don't think this is the issue as I already had a 1TB external drive hooked up. And the problem isn't with the new drive, it's with the system disk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al.Pothoof, post: 1072408, member: 162872"] hughvane: My assumption is that "current" scheme was 1 partition; the other two drives (system disk and 1TB external) are both single partition drives. If she had selected one of those by accident, wouldn't it have been wiped completely? It appears only "some files" from the system disk are missing. But you raise an interesting question: what is "current" on a fresh drive formatted for a PC? harryb2448: The format selected was for Mac OS extended (the only option since we didn't want DOS and can't use GUID: this is a Motorola Mac, not an Intel Mac). That was selected both times. I don't think this is the issue as I already had a 1TB external drive hooked up. And the problem isn't with the new drive, it's with the system disk. [/QUOTE]
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