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Maintenance for Your Drive
Initialize Drive for Mac
G-DRIVE mini was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS X.
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-DRIVE mini will be displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select the G-DRIVE mini by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Informa-
tion 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.
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