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I actually did use pdisk on an intel mac, and it was successful - as has many in the posts on that site I posted.

The discrepancy I found was that I was using a 4TB drive, where the block size was 4096 - once i changed the geometry before analysis, it gave me numbers that i could match with pdisk ...

oh, there is a terminal app in os x's os that is called diskutil - anyone have success with this?

Morning,

on my way to work, and checked for replies :-)

I did see you mention this pdisk shouldn't be used on intel macs.
As fas as tech savvy, I do not think disk utility will be able to do this. It may do a "quick erase" or create partitions but am unsure if it will leave the origiial partition ...

Hey all,

First time here,
Running a mac pro with 4 drives, multiple partitions - 2 drives for mac partitions and 2 for windows partitions,
Finally got around to trying to repair an unbootable windows installation using windows system restore.

well, windows system restore failed and in the ...