This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Format a drive

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Format a drive

Did you format the volume or the physical drive?

What is the Partition Map Scheme of the drive?

You may need to clean it on the PC first
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

Then format it as ExFAT with a 1024 cluster size.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:

Thanks Roger. I tried that. All Partition controls are greyed out.

This is a drive that was working fine before I formatted it as exFAT.

Steve

On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Roger Shufflebottom <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Instead of trying 'Erase', try going to the partition tab and choosing 1 or 2 partitions and a format type. That might get you back in business.

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

From: Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>; "curmudgeon-l@yahoogroups.com" <curmudgeon-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2013, 22:29
Subject: [Avid-L2] Format a drive

I'm on a MacPro, 10.8.5.

I have three 3TB drives installed internally.

I just cleared one of them off of all files. No problems. I wanted to be able to use the drive on my Mac AND be able to transfer it, with 3TB of material "sneakernetted" over to my PC when I was done, so I formatted the drive as ExFAT using Disk Utility.

Now, however, even though I can see the drive in Disk Utility, I can't see it at the finder level and when I'm in Disk Utility, it won't let me re-format the drive in any way. Running Verify Disk on it says that the drive is fine, but I can't use it in any way now and I can't reformat to a useable drive in Disk Utility.

Any ideas how 1) I can format the drive so my MacPro can see it again. 2) Format it so that I can then move it to a PC?

If I can only do #1 and not #2, then I'm fine with that. Right now, I can't use 3TB worth of storage.

Steve