Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3 - NOT' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3 - NOT
Authored by: macslut on Apr 21, '05 09:25:43PM

I'll try this again...

If you think it was so obvious as to what the hint said that the drive was ultimately formated as, then please tell us what the format of the drive became after the hint was applied.

Meanwhile, this page will live in search indexes as "10.3" "format" "NTFS" "hard drive". While those of us know that you can't currently format a NTFS drive with the current version of Disk Utility, I bet many who would search and find this would be confused.

The fact that it was originally NTFS really had nothing to do with the hint. The author was confused about the differences between formating a volume versus formating a drive. Had the drive been formated in other ways to begin with, the same problem could've occurred and the same solution could be possible.

Now on to English 101...

'If I said "please get me the NTFS hard drive"...'

Ah, but the author said the equivalent to "please get me *a* NTFS hard drive" which unlike your example, implies that *any* hard drive could be obtained and made NTFS to satisfy the request.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3 - NOT
Authored by: atter_cob on Apr 22, '05 02:58:59AM

> Now to English 101

Yes, you do need to go to English 101. The hint does just what the author said it does.



[ Reply to This | # ]