Initialize Drive for Mac. G-Technology 0G00273, G-RAID, 0G02289

Maintenance for Your Drive

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Initialize Drive for Mac .......................... p.14

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Restore the Drive Icon ........................... p.17

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Reformat with Partitions ........................ p.19

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Maintenance for Your Drive

Initialize Drive for Mac

G-RAID was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS. You can reinitialize if you would like to quickly erase the contents of the drive. Here are the steps.

1. First, open the Disk Utility program. This application is located on your hard drive under Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-RAID will be displayed in the left-hand column.

2. Select the G-RAID by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Information about the drive willl be displayed at the bottom of the window.

3. Select the Erase tab to view the formatting options. By default, the Format pop-up menu is set to the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) option. p.14

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4. Choose the Format option that you prefer.

• Mac OS Extended (Journaled): Use this format if you intend to use the drive for Time

Machine or to create a separate bootable installation of OS.

• Mac OS Extended: Use this format for best performance and media storage. To select, click the Format pop-up and its option to Mac OS Extended.

5. Click the Erase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to erase the G-RAID partition.

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