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<blockquote data-quote="surfwax95" data-source="post: 250891" data-attributes="member: 12561"><p>I was trying to format my Acomdata 160Gb external hard drive to HFS+ (it was FAT32) and things seem to have gone insane...</p><p></p><p>When DiskUtility finished formatting, the drive's name was supposed to be "ACOMDATA", but instead was "DMI_____IEEE1394". That was strange. I understand that IEEE1394 is FireWire, but DMI I'm unfamiliar with. Anywho, the disk won't mount at all under Mac OS X and under Windows it just shows a removable disk that I can't get to format.</p><p></p><p>The weirdest thing, though, is that now the drive is showing up in DiskUtility (still won't mount) and displaying <strong>1.7 Terabytes</strong> free! It's a 160Gb hard drive! I'm very confused...</p><p></p><p>Is there a utility that can force format a drive?</p><p></p><p>I've already tried every command line route available with no luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="surfwax95, post: 250891, member: 12561"] I was trying to format my Acomdata 160Gb external hard drive to HFS+ (it was FAT32) and things seem to have gone insane... When DiskUtility finished formatting, the drive's name was supposed to be "ACOMDATA", but instead was "DMI_____IEEE1394". That was strange. I understand that IEEE1394 is FireWire, but DMI I'm unfamiliar with. Anywho, the disk won't mount at all under Mac OS X and under Windows it just shows a removable disk that I can't get to format. The weirdest thing, though, is that now the drive is showing up in DiskUtility (still won't mount) and displaying [b]1.7 Terabytes[/b] free! It's a 160Gb hard drive! I'm very confused... Is there a utility that can force format a drive? I've already tried every command line route available with no luck. [/QUOTE]
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