later around 6:30 am the job was done!
I was annoyed to discover the drive (purchased new from Amazon) came with a MBR and several other partitions (no data). So it had obviously been used and returned - I may complain to them - feel I have been sold misrepresented goods.
But the long night was highly productive - I interleaved it with configuring a laptop i recovered (all those drivers to donwload!). I blogged a little and messed about. I tidied to ridiculous extremes and found myself going through old boxes - found a Win98SE Cd from days gone by! A load of crap to throw out... Then came the truly great find....
One of the reasons I had been going through external caddies and drives was to try to get back a picture from old data drives etc. I could not find it and like I said the last two drives i tried seemed to have finally curled up and died.
Then I was tidying through old CD's looking for PowerDVD for the laptop. i came across one I had burnt with pics on - the title was not one that made me think of the pic I was after - but i popped it in and LO AND BEHOLD - the pic I sought! It dovetailed nicely since it was for the person I formatted the drive for - formatting ocmpleted wshortly after and I was able to put the pic there as a present also with the drive (I like to do such things, the personal touch - also when data is precious not only back it up but spread it far and wide if it is of this sort - makes a handy other form of backup!).
Just goes to show - best to look at what is in front of your nose before you search and get elaborate. A similar thing - i went back to a shop thinking I mislaid the Torx15 kit - only to find it was in my BACK POCKET! Must be losing my marbles!
I shall leave my tale of iMac woe for another post!
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