Apple 8200 appendix How to initialize a hard disk, Open the Drive Setup icon

How to initialize a hard disk

You initialize an Apple SCSI hard disk by using a program called

Drive Setup, which is on the floppy disk labeled Disk Tools that came with your computer. If your computer came with a CD-ROM drive and you didn’t receive floppy disks, you can find Drive Setup on the CD-ROM disc that contains system software. (To initialize a hard disk from another manufacturer, use the utility software that came with the hard disk.)

1Start up your computer from the Disk Tools disk or the CD-ROM disc that contains system software.

See “Starting Up From a CD-ROM Disc” or “Starting Up From a Floppy Disk” earlier in this section.

2Open the Drive Setup icon.

You may need to look in a folder called Utilities to find Drive Setup.

3In the list of drives, click the disk you want to initialize.

Click the drive you

want to initialize...

...then click Initialize.

4Click Initialize to initialize the hard disk.

5Click Quit when you see a message reporting that initialization was successful.

If a message reports that initialization failed, try again. If initialization fails a second time, take the disk to your Apple-authorized service provider for repair.

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