G-Technology 0G00273 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Maintenance for Your Drive
invitialize
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.