Formating an External Drive

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

hey Guys

Is there a way to get apple script to call format on an external HDD?

e.g /Volumes/FormatMe

Cheers

#2

Hi,

AppleScript can’t do it, but you could use a shell script call with diskutil

#3

Cheers Stefan

So this shoudl work ?


Do Shell Script

diskutil SecureEraseVolume Level 0 HFS+ UntitledHFS /Volumes/MyDisk

ot this?



diskutil SecureEraseVolume 1 /Volumes/MyDisk
#4

Hey Guys,

Am still stuck on this one…

Any help is really appreciated