I haven't tried running DiskWarrior on it yet because my father has the OS 9 version handy, but not the Leopard version. In OS 9, the failed drive opens to show icons etc, but also yields error messages upon dismounting. Disk First Aid chokes on it, causing it to dismount, and Super Duper can't back it up. The failed drive appears to have some kind of corruption of the file system or drive structure- in Leopard, Disk Utility sees that there are files on it, but when opened, the drive spontaneously dismounts, yielding error messages etc about bad disk ejection. Which machine should he use to format the drive? Are there any incompatibilities between the two OS's in regard to formatting for this kind of drive? We need to minimize any problems that might arise from moving the drive back and forth (and we wonder whether movement back and forth is what corrupted the first drive). He wants to format the new (4GB ) drive for Mac and will need to use it on two machines: a Lombard running OS 9.2.2 and an iMac running Leopard. My father uses a usb flash drive for backup, and is replacing it because the old flash drive has apparently failed (more below).
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