Apple LC 580 manual Reinitializing your computer’s internal hard disk, Click Initialize

Reinitializing your computer’s internal hard disk

You initialize your internal hard disk using a program called Internal HD Format, 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 Internal HD Format on the CD-ROM disc that contains system software.

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.

2Double-click the Internal HD Format icon to open it.

You may need to look in a folder called Utilities to find Internal HD Format.

3Type a name for your disk in the Name box.

4If you want to make sure that none of the hard disk’s original information is recognizable after reinitialization, choose Zero Data from the Options menu.

If you choose Zero Data, initialization may take a few minutes. (If you don’t choose Zero Data, initialization will take less than 30 seconds.)

5Click Initialize.

A message informs you that initializing the disk erases all information on it.

6Click OK.

During initialization, a status bar shows you the progress of the initialization.

7When initialization is complete, click Done.

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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