API's to Format drives?

Are there any Mac OS X API's to format a drive manually (super manually I guess haha) I did a search in google but could only find Windows specific API's

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With this type of process scenario, it is possible to do so with some custom modifications.
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Capture Problem (av-1) - Mac OS Extended formatted drives

I've got a bit of a stumper. I've been trying to capture some video. (I'm backing up all my Hi8 tapes to DVD.) I have no size limit enabled. The time limit is set to 30 minutes. When I finish, FCP stop the capture and creates the capture files. I have one 4.1GB file (Untitled) with the movie and sound and another 780MB file (Untitled-av-1) which is not playable. The movie file plays with quick time and is able to be edited with FCP. But, the other file does nothing. If I delete the second file, the first movie becomes unplayable and uneditable in FCP.
I searched this issue. I do not have Norton AV or any virus protection software. All my drives are formatted MacOS extended.
I don't know why else this extra file is there? Anybody know? I've captured files before and this did not happen. Strangely it's happening now.

Well, you did mention...
so I don't understand why it's (apparently) running into a problem peculiar to FAT32-formatted drives
I kind of had to assume at that point the source drive was the one you formatted as Mac OS Extended two years ago, and the target drive was FAT32. If not, then I'm not sure why you mentioned FAT32 at all.
In that same thinking, error code 0 is directly related to FAT formatted drives.

Can I write to an NTFS formatted drive on a PC Network?

I had a quick question that I am sure someone in this qualified group will be able to answer.
My existing laptop PC for work is about shot, and my company has said that I could replace it with anything (Excellent!). So I'm looking at the 17'' Mac Book Pro (especially now with Boot Camp). I've been a pretty big Mac supporter and have owned one for my personal stuff for 10+ years, so I’m not too worried about the quality of the product,
With a Mac for home and then a PC for work, I’ve never had any problems transferring files, it was always a simple as an email or transfer via a USB flash drive. But at work, we have a PC file server that is running XP (possibly 2000 and I don’t know it if is the “server” version of this software or not), and on my laptop it is mounted as an available network drive. When I’ve done properties view on the drive, I’ve confirmed its an NTFS formatted drive.
So the question is, will the Mac be able to connect, mount, read and WRITE to this drive since it will be mounted as a network drive and NOT as a directly connected drive (which sounds like the cause for the read-only ability in the Bootcamp discussions)? Also, would this be using the SMB feature to connect then, any issues anyone knows about?
Unfortunately for me, the current laptop PC I have is formatted in FAT32 so I can't just solve this with existing hardware and I don't just carry my Dual 2.7 G5 to the office all that often. I know its pretty simple and someone must have done it before.
Here’s an Apple article that is silent on the drive format - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=19652
Thanks
Dual G5 - 2.7Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Numbers,
In this situation the format of the volume on the server is less important than the way you connect to it. Windows sharing presents on the network via SMB, which Mac OS X speaks fluently; it doesn't matter too much whether the server's locally connected volume is formatted NTFS or FAT32, as long as it is shared out to the clients.
If you were to try to connect an NTFS-formatted volume DIRECTLY to your Mac, however, you would find that no matter what you did it would show up read-only -- since NTFS permissions are tightly connected to Windows and to Active Directory, it's not possible for Mac OS X to respect them for writing, and so Apple avoids writing to NTFS altogether.
Short answer, you should be fine on your office network. If you want to be sure, borrow a friend's Mac and check it at work.
Good luck!

Using a FAT32-formatted drive as backup disk with Time Machine

For strange and perverse reasons of my own, I'd like to use a FAT32-formatted external hard drive with Time Machine. Is this possible?

No, Time Machine needs a HFS+ formatted drive for its backup folder:
Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended Journaled.
_A solution_ if you still want to use the same drive for TM backup and for some Windows files:
Partition the drive before you start using it.
1) Format it (using Disk Utility) as Mac OS Extended
2) Make two partitions.
3) Now you can format Partition2 as FAT32, so you have then two different volumes with each its own format.

Error code 0 when copying a large file to a Mac OS Extended formatted drive

I always back up my photos manually by dragging a folder containing many folders containing many photos into an external drive that I immediately formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) the day I bought it 2 years ago. I now run into a Error Code 0 when I do this. The "mother" folder is 240 GB in size. As I stated, this drive has been formatted for the Mac, so I don't understand why it's (apparently) running into a problem peculiar to FAT32-formatted drives. My iMac has 16 GB of RAM, of which 10 GB was free, the last time I tried to do this.

Well, you did mention...
so I don't understand why it's (apparently) running into a problem peculiar to FAT32-formatted drives
I kind of had to assume at that point the source drive was the one you formatted as Mac OS Extended two years ago, and the target drive was FAT32. If not, then I'm not sure why you mentioned FAT32 at all.
In that same thinking, error code 0 is directly related to FAT formatted drives.

Can Tiger be installed on a formatted drive without losing data?

i have a mac OS formatted drive with tons of data on it that i use as a secondary storage device. my main HD just burnt out, and i was thinking of installing Tiger to the secondary drive. i know that if you install OS X on a drive that already has a previous version of the OS on it, you have the option to 'archive and install,' but this is not an option since the drive has no OS files on it. so my question is, if i choose the standard option of 'install OS X' from the install disk, will i lose my data from the drive?

As long as the drive was initialized as HFS+ (Mac Extended) you can install OSX without erasing the disk, but if that disk contains your only copy of important data you would be living dangerously. If something goes wrong (user error, software bug, power surge, hardware failure, etc.) you could lose everything.

How to format drive but recover mail and address book?

hi there,
thanks for taking the time to read this question.
there are some major problems with my hard drive -- bad files somewhere that can't be identified -- so i am formatting my drive and starting from scratch. of course, i want to keep/recover the contents of some key programs from the old drive (e.g. mail, address book, photos, itunes files) on my newly formatted drive. also, i am running tiger currently, but will re-format with leopard.
i have a backup of my hard drive on an external. what's the best way to re-load the old mail files onto the new drive? i don't need the folders, or any of that, i just want to have the ability to search my old mail and pull up an important email when the need arises. same question for addresbook, too.
i am not at all computer savvy, and i will appreciate any answers in as simple language as possible. thank you for your help.
bernard

Hi there,
The first way would be once you intall Leopard to the New Hard Drive, on first boot Migration Assistant will popup & ask if you want to import/migrate your old/other stuff, I'd try it that way myself.
You'll have a hard time searching or using it any other way, but here's where the stuff you mention is...
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Download/
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/

Are HFS+ formatted drives compatible with VISTA?

Can't get my USB HD to work wireless via Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n.
Apple manual says USB HD needs FAT32 format to work with VISTA. Found freeware to accomplish this-- http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
and successfully formatted the 500GB HD to FAT32 in a single partition--
BUT, the setup still did NOT work correctly. I could now see the drive from within VISTA, but my test write/save to the USB HD wirelessly via AEX failed-- Microsoft Word froze. Test of Microsoft Word file COPIED from laptop's HD to USB HD via AEX appeared to work. But when COPIED file opened, Word program froze again.
Then today I read the following on Wikipedia: "On Windows, a fairly complete filesystem driver for HFS+ exists as a commercial software package called MacDrive. This package allows Windows users to read and write HFS+ formatted drives, and read Mac format optical disks. [9]
A free alternative to MacDrive is HFSExplorer [1] written by Erik Larsson. HFSExplorer is a useful application for viewing and extracting files from an HFS+ volume (Mac OS Extended) or an HFSX volume (Mac OS Extended, Case-sensitive) located either on a physical disk, on a .dmg disk image, or in a raw file system dump."
Wow, imagine my surprise, given that Apple says to format FAT32. If the Wikipedia info is correct, forget FAT32 and its limit of 4GB file size. HSF+ would be a much better format than FAT32 if it's truly compatible. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience on this issue? I really want to be able to backup wirelessly from VISTA and via my AEX, which I otherwise love! Thanks for any help on the issue.

I have been at it today as well
HFS is the better compatible format for VISTA. You can drag the files, but there is no way of having a software backit up for you. The drive will show up As Network Drive and i have been trying for the past 5 hours to figure out how to make it possible. After numerous attempts i gaave up.
So i came down to dragging and dropping the files i want to back up instead.
Good luck

Windows formatted drive

I have an external hard drive which is Windows formatted. I have pictures, a lot of pictures, on this external drive. I would like to copy these pictures from my external drive to my Mac. Unfortunately, when I connect my Windows formatted drive to the Mac, it will ask me do I want to format my external drive.
How do I get the Mac to recognize the external hard drive without formatting the drive?

After connecting the external drive, open a Finder window and see if your external drive appears in the Finder sidebar. If so, select it and copy the files you want to your internal drive.
OS X does not ask you to format the external drive if it is formatted for Windows. If OS X asks you for this, ignore it. Also, OS X can read Windows formats

Confirmation on Advance Format Drive

Hello all, I have been searching everywhere for this, I think I found it once before, but lost it when I was moving. I am using a advanced format drive which means I need the 2mb boot partition labelled ef02.
The problem I am having is when it comes to installing grub I was sure that you have to add some sort of line for it to use the ef02 partition.

An Advanced Format drive is one that uses physical sectors that are 4096 bytes in size, rather than the older standard of 512 bytes. Most (in fact, all, the last I heard) such drives present the illusion of using 512-byte sectors for compatibility purposes, though.
The gdisk partition type code of EF02 refers to a BIOS Boot Partition, which holds boot loader code for GRUB on disks that are partitioned using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning system. Note that this partition is only necessary when using GRUB on a BIOS-booted GPT disk. If you've got an MBR disk or if you're booting in EFI mode, you don't need this partition.
These two issues are entirely unrelated. It's possible to use MBR (which has no equivalent to GPT's BIOS Boot Partition) on an Advanced Format disk, and it's possible to use a BIOS Boot Partition on a disk that's not an Advanced Format model.
As to GRUB installation, you should not need to issue any special command to get it to find the BIOS Boot Partition; it should find it automatically.

CS3 Won't save Droplet on FAT32 formatted drive. (leopard) [solved]

PS CS3 doesn't want to save a droplet on my mac (Leopard).
I'm getting a message when I hit "save droplet" as follows:
"Could not create the droplet file [path/filename] because this volume format is not supported."
It turns out the answer was that the drive I was saving to was a FAT32 formatted drive. Apparently you can't save droplets to FAT32 drives.
Sometimes I wish I had my PC back!
Just posting in case somebody else runs into the problem.
Susan

Well known fact. Fat 32 is not supported.
You couldn't use that drive as a scratch drive either.
Drives MUST be formatted to Macintosh HFS+ Extended (Journaled).

Backup and Restore image fails 3TB Advanced Format Drive Windows 7-32 SP1

Windows native backp fails to create an System Image, or a Complete PC Backup.
This occurs in Windows 7, 64 bit Professional, Windows 7, 32bit Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, 32 bit. It occurs in 6 different computers I've tried. All the backup drives are 3TB. I have tried Seagte USB and Hitachi USB drives. 4 of them. The Windows
7 Ultimate, 32bit machine has SP1. All operating systems are using the current Service Packs, and all of the MS Updates including all of the recommended harware drivers. All of the systems are using the latest BIOS, firmware and OEM drivers as well.
It looks like the issue may be causes by a deficiency in Windows related to the Advanced Format drive spec. All of the computers that qualified had the AF hotfix applied; Advanced Format Drives 512e 4k, Vista
and 2008 - KB2470478, Windows 7, and 2008 R2 KB982018
Error messages follow:
The Backup Failed.
Error message: One of the backup files could not be created. (0x8078002A)
The request could not be perfomed because of an I/O error. (0x8007045D)
This deficiency seems to apply across the board to different hardware manufacturers of external hard drives.
From what I have heard, Western Digital may have a format utility that addresses this issue, but only for WD drives.
Help.

Hi David,
Did you have found any error message？
Check if all the files have been created on the hard drive.
Check the Volume shadow copy service in services window. To check follow these steps:
i.
Click Start and type services.msc in the search box
ii.
Search for the Volume shadow copy service
Make sure the start- up type is automatic. Steps to set the services to automatic
i.
Search for the service
ii.
Right click on the service
iii.
If the service is stopped then Start the service
iv.
Select Properties
v.
And in the Start-up type select Automatic
This is the most definitive answer I can find so am taking this as the answer.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsbackup/thread/889b01be-d333-4fc7-b005-e12b7b236ad7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/444e8ea2-6417-45dc-83d4-f5ae45bbaa02
Thanks,
Jeff
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ZFS (ZEVO) formatted drive can't be used as event/project drive

Started using Zevo ZFS recently and notices that a ZFS formatted drive doesn't show up in drive list where the events and projects are. Same disk worked before when it was HFS+ formatted. Would be great if FCPX would also support other filesystems. Exporting and inporting is fine, it's just that the ZFS drive is not shown in the event/project list.
Regards,
Peter

This is true of many of the Apple applications which are designed to make use of features of HFS+. So the use of them on other file ssytems as you have discovered is either not possible or thy fail to function fully.
Allan

Disk Utility Can't Format Drive

My Dad just bought a brand new 1TB Fantom external hard drive for his iMac. But Disk Utility cant erase or format the drive as a Mac format volume. I keep getting this error:
Volume Erase failed
Volume Erase failed with the error:
The underlying task reported failure on exit.
SOMEHOW I did get it to change from a MS-DOS format to a Mac OS X (Journaled) but I still keep getting errors when I try to Verify or Erase the drive!
Got this error when I tried to Verify the drive: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
And when I go to format the drive I get this wheel and the spinning blue candy-cane bar, and the operation never completes:
"......partition size not a multiple of 4K"
When I goto the company web site I get this error message:
http://www.fantomdrives.com/
ACCESS FORBIDDEN
Access denied. Please click on the back button to return to the former page.
Anyone know why Disk Utility cannot erase or even verify this drive???
Never had so much trouble formating a drive in my life...
Jeff

The underlying task reported failure on exit.
The above is not a good sign. And yes it's very odd that TM Utility was able to get the job done but not Disk Utility (since they address formatting drives in a very similar way). When you look at the drive in Disk Utility, is it reporting good S.M.A.R.T. status? Before seeing your post about using TM to fix the issue, I was going to suggest trying to erase and/or format the drive using a 2nd computer to see the results. I would run tests with DU on the drive and any other drive utility programs you may have (Techtools Pro perhaps) to see what the results are.

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