G-Technology 0G02576, 0G02537 manual Initialize Drive for Mac

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G DRIVE®

Maintenance for Your Drive

Initialize Drive for Mac

G-DRIVE 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 un- der Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-DRIVE will be displayed in the left-hand column.

2.Select the G-DRIVE 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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