User Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive
4. SelectthedefaultG-RAIDUSBdriveicononyourdesktopandpressCommand+I.This
openstheGet Infowindow(belowleft).
5. SelectthedefaulticonintheGet Info window(belowleft).
6. PressCommand+V topastethecustomG-RAIDUSBiconintotheGetInfowindow(belowright).
TheiconforyourG-RAIDUSBhasbeenrestoredandyoucanclosetheGetInfowindow.
Yourdriveisnowreadyforuse!
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MacOSX,andeachpartitioncanbeadierentsizeandformat.
Withharddrivesgettingbigger,itisusefultopartitionyourharddrivesoyoucan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suchasFinalCutProandAdobePremiere.
Thefollowingstepswillguideyouthroughthesimpleprocessofpartitioningyourdrive.In this
example, we will partition a 12TB G-RAID USB connected via USB 3.0. The steps will be identical for
your drive, although the name may be dierent.
1. OpentheDiskUtilityprogram.Thisapplicationis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column.