What format structure do I reformat the hard drive with?

I'm reformatting my hard drive with linux and need to know which structure i use to format it with. the choices are:
FAT
ext2
ext3
ext4 reiserfs
minix
ntfs
nilfs2
Swap Space
Empty
Don't want to guess at his point and get it wrong. Thanks for you help
whereisjeff

What are you formatting the disk to do?
If it is to work with a Mac, you want HFS+ (Journaled) with GUID partition mapping.
Allan

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Reformat usiing the original install disc then update to v10.6.8.
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There's an old saying. If you don't have a backup disc, then there must be nothing important to backup. That's just lesson #1. Lesson #2 is to never interrupt a software update. Not a good thing.
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Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
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Hi
I'm selling my MacBook Pro late 2011 model and want to reformat the hard drive so that the new owner ca'nt recover any of my information.
Whats the best way to do this and to ensure that they won't ever be able to recover my personal data ?
Thanks in advance !
Andrew

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518
Next, for organization of photos, I use iPhoto, which is part of the iLife suite.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
Next, this thread discusses the formatting of the drive:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12859938?messageID=12859938
while this page discusses setting up Time Machine which is a pretty easy backup solution that you can use.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
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I was told today that my logic board needs replacing. It's under warranty - so that's OK. The logic board will be in next week - so they put my laptop together for me - for the weekend.
I have read that some service centers have reformatted people's hard drives after replacing the logic board.
Is this necessary?
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i haven't sent a mc out for repair yet, as i've only had mine a week and i recently switched from PC but every time i sent my PC out for service, no matter what it was they wiped out the hard drive and reformatted it, even when the issue i was sending it in for was unrelated to the hard drive like replacing the screen. i learned my lesson and i always back up prior to sending my computer in for service. i would recommend that you thoroughly back up our system or at least your data and be prepared to reinstall everything when you get your computer back.

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I just bought aToshiba Satellite P505-S8940 laptop. It did not come with a recovery disk. I had to use their Recovery Disc Creator to make copies of 2 system recovery disks and 2 application disks. I would like to know how do I reformat the hard drive? Thanks!

Satellite P505-S8940
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To contact product and tech support: Apple - Support - Contact Apple Support.
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If no luck turn off all the firewalls.. internal windows plus security software plus whatever other gargyoles and other rubbish AV software you have running.
Ensure windows is able to at least ping the TC by IP address and name..
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Today when I turned on my computer I got a strange message on the screen that basically said I need to back up one of my drives and format it asap. It also said the computer couldn't repair it.
This is the HD I use to edit with as my scratch disc with Final Cut Pro.
I am in the process of backing my files up now. One thing I noticed was that some of my files I don't need anymore and wanted to trash them but it won't allow me to trash files! I get an error message when I drag the file to the trash. So I am going to have to back everything up and I guess will have to erase the disc.
I never reformatted a disc before so if anyone knows what I need to do that would be great since this is the drive I used to edit with.
Thanks.
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To reformat a hard drive, launch Disk Utilities (in the Applications->Utilities folder) and click on the Erase tab. Select the drive you want to reformat then choose "Mac OS Extended" ... give the volume a name and click on the Erase button.
Once the drive is reformatted, open FCP and assign it as the scratch disk.
However, the drive may be suffering from other problems that reformatting won't fix.
-DH

What format structure do I reformat the hard drive with?

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