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orioncarp24

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Aug 19, 2012
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I have an external drive and i set a passord on only one partision and now i want to format it and it wont let me
 
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Make an Ubuntu boot USB key, boot your system from that, and then use its disk partitioning software to erase all the partitions. Reboot back into Mac OS X and you should have an empty drive to do whatever you want with it.
 
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