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Maintenance for Your Drive
G SPEED Q
™
initialize
Initialize Drive for Mac
G-SPEED Q was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS X. You can reinitial-
ize if you¹d like to quickly erase the contents of the drive, or if you recongure the RAID
mode. Here are the steps.
1. First, open the Disk Utility program. This application is located on your hard drive un-
der Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-SPEED
Q will be displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select the G-SPEED Q 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.