User Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive
WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.
6. Click 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, the Time Machine dialog box should automatically
appear.
• 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 with Thunderbolt has been erased. You can optionally restore this icon
with the steps on the next page.