User Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive
4. Choose the Format option that you prefer.
• Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Option: Use this format if you intend to use the
drive for Time Machine or to create a separate bootable installation of OS X
®
.
• Mac OS Extended Option: Use this format for best performance and media storage.
To select, click the Format pop-up and its option to Mac OS Extended.
5. Click the Erase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will
appear asking if you want to erase the G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt partition.