Cannot format HD 3000 drive

I own an older removable portable drive, HD 3000, 300 Gb. I installed a Linux OS on it... I have tried to format the drive, but the Linux cannot be erased!!! I have tried several times with same result. Linux cannot be "eliminated". Help ! I need the drive cleaned.

Or cables. Or you need to reset nvram.
Maxtor has been playing around with their firmware.
Always helps to -
look at the drive in System Profiler.
Copy down model, revision, firmware etc.
Post that, or at worst, look on the label of the drive.
Then post what you have (capacity etc) and you might want to Google to see if that model comes up with any hits.
Also, check out
http://www.storagereview.com
They have quite a bit of good info on general drive info too.

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First, make sure you've backed up everything you need from your hard drive, as you'll be erasing absolutely everthing when you reformat.
Then, you'll have to boot from the CD - I would assume it's version 10.3.5. Insert install disc #1 and choose restart from the apple menu at the top left of your display. At the sound of the start-up chord hold down the "c" key until you have a white screen with an apple and a whirling sundial or something, at which point you can release the key because start-up is under way. You should also be able to hear the optical drive speed up as the disc takes control of operating your iMac.
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Select the "First Aid" panel when you're finished with the "Erase" panel. There find the "S.M.A.R.T. status" and check to see that it shows as "verified." While you're there, you might as well click the "Repair Disc" button, and note that it should show that no repairs were necessary.
Then you can close Disk Utility and be returned to a welcome screen where you'll begin installing the Panther OS from the disc. I believe it takes about a half hour or so.

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I'm in a pretty big mess right now. I was using boot camp with lion and Windows 7 no problem and I wanted to edit the sizes of the partions. It didnt go so well and I ended up losing both operating systems. Now the big problem is when I boot up from the recovery partion I cannot do any sort of formating from the disk utility, it always give me some sort of error. When I try to install lion via web there is no partion that I can Install it to. I can install Windows no problem from a USB drive whcih I have done already. When managing the disk in windows I see 2 of the windows partions, the mac recovery partion, and an 80 GB partition that I can format but I cannot do anything else with. I dont have any images or recovery devices other than the recovery partition. I need some advice on how to get the drive back to mac format so I can re install lion.

From the disk utility every time I would try to format the partitions or resize anything it would say cannot unmount disk and there was another error I cant remember. I think I'm on the right track though. What I've managed to do so far is with the disk utility on the recovery partition, I formated a usb drive and then installed Lion on that drive. The drive is painfully slow but it seems to be working. Where I am at now is I have booted from the the flash drive and managed to Format the Hard drive back to mac format and I am now creating an image of the USB stick that I can hopfully copy to the hard drive. Creating the image is taking a while due to the crappy transfer rate of the USB stick.
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Regards,
Steve 18 Sept 2008

Yes, it indeed seems to be some type of "U3" (that's new to me) or other separate hard drive. In fact, when I insert the new stick drive into my MAC, it shows the disk image (about 1.6 gb) but does NOT show the 30.5 mb (like a Windows computer does) - it says that this drive is not in a format that is recognize by macintosh OSX and either for me to click IGNORE or EJECT. No matter which I check, I cannot "see" this second 'drive' - only if I click IGNORE then I can see it in DISK UTILITY, but can't do anything about it.
As to the web reference you gave, it seems that will only work if I am on a WINDOWS PC - the UNINSTALL software (about 3.3 mb download) is an 'exe' file, i.e. not a Mac program-- is there any Mac software to eliminate the U3?
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MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2010
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
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Partitioned:
1TB - Windows NTFS
1TB - Mac (sorry I can't remember the formatting, whatever Mavricks asked me to use...)
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Hello support community
The problem: when I insert my 'FAT' formatted external hard drive (Samsung M3) into my mac book pro it comes up with the error message that says "the inserted disk is not readable by this computer" and I therefore cannot access the files.
The story (potential further details):
1. I had a problem with my mac where it took hours to load each time I turned it on, would only work when power was plugged in etc. so I had to reformat my mac hard drive (when I tried to veriify it said repair, that wouldn't work). So i'm starting with a recently reformatted, clean mac.
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The technical details:
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the same happened to me 4 days ago with my gopro 3 black edition.
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PS
i tried scanning using different antiviruses (kaspersky, avg, avast, malware removals etc) and it shows no viruses or malwares or spywares. please do help

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