[SOLVED] What is meant by initializing a disk?

[shesh]

what is the process of initializing a disk called?

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Homework again sigh

Its called INITIALIZING.... or INITIALISING (in the UK)

All the best Brett

 

[shesh]

it is called DISK something...
can you help?

 

[Brett928S2]

it is called DISK something...
can you help?

Hi

No but I bet Google could....

All the best Brett

 

[wildwell]

It's called, "Disk Utility."

Initializing is to build partions tables for given formats on a disk.
This is most easily done in Mac OSX using the Disk Utility application, Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.

Although OSX 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion can dynamically partition a disk (and you have many manual partitioning options using apps within the command line Terminal), in most cases, you will lose all the data on the drive when you re-initialize it.
So be sure to back up whatever you've got on the drive before proceeding.