External HD...

It's been a while since I've posted something new onto my blogsite about the Mini-switch I have done. Why? Well, everything works as it should. However, today I finally got my USB to SATA external hd enclosure. Installing the SATA drive into the enclosure was easy, but figuring out how to delete the Linux partitions on the SATA drive seemed like impossible. As I booted up my Mini, it recognized the external drive immediately. It could not however mount the images as they were ext3. I decided I wanted to delete the partitions. I tried to erase the first partition and replace it with Mac Os Extended Journaled, it worked as it should. I also formatted the second Linux ext3 parition hoping that I could merge the two drives after that. No dice though. After trying out almost everything I could think of in Disk Utility, I decided to try fdisk and pdisk. No go with them either. Going back to Disc Utility, I decided to right click the drive and try to merge the two partitions. And what did I see? I could erase all of the content on the drive by just rightclicking on the drive instead of trying to do it the difficult way.

Lesson learned? Don't try the difficult ways, if it is Mac OS X, try thinking logical and ease of use ;) And lo and behold, it is the solution for all situations in OS X.