User Manual

p.19

Using Your Drive

with Mac OS

with Thunderbolt™

DRIVE

Reformat with Partitions

‘Partitioning’ a hard drive is the process of dividing a hard drive into separate,

discrete sections called ‘volumes’. Each volume works like a separate disk. You can

create up to 16 dierent partitions on a hard drive in the OS and each partition can

be a dierent size and format.

With hard drives getting bigger, it can be useful to partition your hard drive to use

sections of its space for dierent purposes. For instance, you can segment user data from

backup data, set up a multi-boot environment with dierent operating systems or create a

dedicated capture scratch disk for programs like Final Cut Pro® and Adobe Premiere®.

The following steps will guide you through the simple process of partitioning your drive.

1. First, open the Disk Utility program, located on your hard drive under Applications/

Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-Technology drive will be

displayed in the left-hand column.