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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 won't boot
Hi I have an Ultra 6 that I wanted to reformat. I had an error that 2 drives needed to be replaced, which I did, but saw a message that Volume C was not good. I had already moved all my data to ano...
I wasn't questioning your knowledge...
My reply was to your question as to whether the Mac Disk Utility did that; which it does, as well as allowing the partition to be deleted as MDGM says (Partition tab, highlight the partition, click the minus button below the partition display).
In my experience with several such situations of repurposing disks, I have found it matters not whether the Mac-formatted drive has zero or one partitions, across both OS4 and OS6. That was why I didn't state to 'remove all partitions'. Whether it is "better" is debatable as it seems open to interpretation (it's also easier and quicker to create a single partition, particularly if one isn't an advanced user). It's certainly a more thorough option, I'll agree.
Having said that, I'd generally do a disk format then erase the partition myself, but that's more because I secure erase disks and remove partitions before I put them away when they are not being used, out of habit.
The only time I've had issues has been where an existing ReadyNAS partition has still existed and was inserted without removing the partitions, but this was an error on my part due to incorrectly labelling a drive. Luckily it didn't cause an issue in my situation as the NAS alerted me.
My reply was to your question as to whether the Mac Disk Utility did that; which it does, as well as allowing the partition to be deleted as MDGM says (Partition tab, highlight the partition, click the minus button below the partition display).
In my experience with several such situations of repurposing disks, I have found it matters not whether the Mac-formatted drive has zero or one partitions, across both OS4 and OS6. That was why I didn't state to 'remove all partitions'. Whether it is "better" is debatable as it seems open to interpretation (it's also easier and quicker to create a single partition, particularly if one isn't an advanced user). It's certainly a more thorough option, I'll agree.
Having said that, I'd generally do a disk format then erase the partition myself, but that's more because I secure erase disks and remove partitions before I put them away when they are not being used, out of habit.
The only time I've had issues has been where an existing ReadyNAS partition has still existed and was inserted without removing the partitions, but this was an error on my part due to incorrectly labelling a drive. Luckily it didn't cause an issue in my situation as the NAS alerted me.
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