Hello.
I've got a large external drive that I'm trying to reformat. Using disk utility, I was going to erase the disk (was fat-32) and reformat it using a journaled Mac OS Extended file system.
I was simply curious as to how long it would take to zero the drive, so I started erasing it that way (still using disk utility). When I found that it would take a very long time, I clicked the skip button (as I planned on doing a quick erase... I'm not selling the drive or anything).
Now, I'm getting the 'resource busy' error. I also can't format the drive using the basic windows disk manager (returns and error).
Is there anything that I can do to save the drive? I've got the data backed up, but the drive was both expensive and insanely useful.
Thoughts
I should also mention: disk utility now lists the partition map scheme as unformatted
I've got a large external drive that I'm trying to reformat. Using disk utility, I was going to erase the disk (was fat-32) and reformat it using a journaled Mac OS Extended file system.
I was simply curious as to how long it would take to zero the drive, so I started erasing it that way (still using disk utility). When I found that it would take a very long time, I clicked the skip button (as I planned on doing a quick erase... I'm not selling the drive or anything).
Now, I'm getting the 'resource busy' error. I also can't format the drive using the basic windows disk manager (returns and error).
Is there anything that I can do to save the drive? I've got the data backed up, but the drive was both expensive and insanely useful.
Thoughts
I should also mention: disk utility now lists the partition map scheme as unformatted