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I'm looking to format an external hard drive for use exclusively Mac OS X (for use with the time machine feature), but the Mac that I'm using is too slow to format the entire harddrive.
Considering I own a PC that's much faster than that, is there any way I could use Linux or Windows to format it for Mac OS X?
Why would the Mac be too slow to format a hard drive? – slhck – 2011-07-02T21:47:11.087
@slhck Because it's an iMac G4 (quite old). (Much like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/larsa/3333151930/)
– leeand00 – 2011-07-02T22:24:49.6931I thought the speed a harddrive is formatted at relied more upon the cabling/data transfer than the speed of the system... – Vervious – 2011-07-03T00:00:29.287
1@Nano8Blazex You're right, the ports on the iMac are USB 1.1 – leeand00 – 2011-07-03T03:27:28.910