User Manual

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Using Your Drive with Mac OS
®
with Thunderbolt™
G
DRIVE
WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.
6. Click on the Erase button to continue. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the
window will show the progress of the disk’s reformatting.
7. After the drive is reinitialized, you should automatically see the Time Machine
dialog box.
• Click the ‘Use as Backup Disk’ button if you want to use the drive with
Time Machine. For more about using the drive with Time Machine, go here.
• Click the ‘Don’t Use’ or ‘Decide Later’ button if you do not want to use
Time Machine at this point.
8. Quit the Disk Utility program. After reinitializing the drive, the custom icon for
G-DRIVE mobile with Thunderbolt has been erased. You can optionally restore this
icon by following the steps on the next page.