G-Technology GC760AV, 0G02229 manual Initialize Drive for Mac

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G DRIVE®

USB

Using Your Drive on Mac

Initialize Drive for Mac

G-DRIVE mobile USB 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-DRIVE mobile USB will be displayed in the left-hand column.

2.Select the G-DRIVE mobile USB 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.

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