An Overview Of Hard Disk Toolkit• Pe - Power Computing PowerCenter PRO User Manual

A n O v e r v i e w o f H a r d D i s k T o o l K i t • P E
Hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition is a powerful application that formats and partitions
SCSI and IDE storage devices. Formatting and partitioning are data-destructive procedures —
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any previously existing data on the storage device will be irrevocably erased. Back up all
valuable data before using HDT•PE. Read this chapter and Chapter 4, Using Hard Disk
ToolKit•PE, in the online manual before attempting any operations such as formatting or
partitioning.
Hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition is a fully functional disk manage-
ment utility software for SCSI and IDE storage systems for the Power
Macintosh/Macintosh. Use Hard Disk ToolKit•PE as a standard format-
ting utility for all single-disk drives and removable media drives.
Hard Disk ToolKit•PE:
• Displays all peripheral devices across all SCSI and IDE buses in one
IDE is also known as ATA. The terms IDE and ATA are interchangeable.
NOTE
• Supports Fast & Wide SCSI-2 and SCSI-3 technology (connect up to 15
• Creates, deletes, and modifies partitions on SCSI and IDE disk devices
• Mounts and unmounts partitions
• Updates and/or installs device drivers
• Tests disk devices for defects
• Provides password protection to volumes
Chapter 3: An Overview of Hard Disk ToolKit•PE
Figure 7.2: The HDT•PE application icon.
convenient window
devices on an installed Fast & Wide SCSI-2 bus)
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