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Appendix C: Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance 69
Formatting an Audio Drive
Formatting Mac Audio Drives
For optimum performance, audio drives should be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
To format an audio drive:
1 Launch the Disk Utility application, located in Applications/Utilities.
2 Click the Erase tab.
3 Select the drive you want to initialize in the column on the left side of the window.
4 Select the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.
Disk Utility (Mac OS X)
If the drive contains existing data, be sure to back up all data before erasing and formatting
the drive.
Do not choose the “Case-Sensitive” format option. Pro Tools will not operate properly with
case-sensitive formatted drives.