Properly Formatting an AppleTV Drive with Leopard
Okay, so having used several different drives with the AppleTV (both internal and eSata external) I got tired of constantly using terminal to image the original drive and then format the new drive. I can use the cli terminal commands just fine, but as I said I am lazy. So I wrote a small gui utility that does it for me called AtvCloner. You can read about and download it here.
Now, I have had good success with it on five different drives on a vanilla install of 10.5.7 Mac OSX Leopard but I make no warranties it will work for you. However, feel free to give it a try and if it works drop me a line. Be sure to read the guarantee part because like anything free … there isn’t one of any sort.
Currently it is at version 0.1.1 which of course indicates it isn’t even alpha yet (and maybe never will be). Hopefully it works for you and saves a lot of headache.
Cheers.