{"id":14369,"date":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=14369"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"atto-expresspro-tools-utility-format-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/atto-expresspro-tools-utility-format-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the ATTO ExpressPro-Tools Utility to format a hard drive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When installing ATTO ExpressPro-Tools, chose NOT to install the ATTO extension.  It is not needed for normal operations.   Simply launch the ATTO ExpressPro-Tools utility and allow it to scan all SCSI busses.<\/p>\n<p>1.  Click the top-left button (that usually says BUSSES and DRIVES), and change it to BUSSES AND DEVICES.   All drives should appear directly below.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Click once on the hard drive you want to format.<\/p>\n<p>3. Click the UNMOUNT button at the bottom-right of the window to unmount the drive.<\/p>\n<p>4.  From the UTILITIES menu, choose either  LOW LEVEL FORMAT or ERASE DISK<br \/>    a) LOW LEVEL FORMAT &#8211; will completely erase all sectors and blocks.  While this takes a very long time (hours), it is more thorough, and good for disks that are used frequently and heavily.<br \/>     b) ERASE DISK &#8211; is a quicker method, but does not completely erase the disk.   This method only wipes the directory and drivers.<\/p>\n<p>5.  Once formatting is complete, select the drive again, and choose INSTALL DRIVER on DISK from the UTILITIES menu.<\/p>\n<p>6.  With the drive still selected, click the &#8220;HFS&#8221; button at the bottom left of the window (below CREATE VOLUME).   Here, you will have options to determine how many partitions you&#8217;d like, type of volume (HFS, HFS-plus, etc&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>7.  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