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Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive
5. Clickontherstpartitioninthe Partition Layoutarea.Yourpartitionwillbeinawhitebox
surroundedbybluelines.
• IntheNameeld,typeanameforthepartition.
• FromtheFormatmenu,chooseyourdesireddiskformat.Ifyouwilluseyourdrive
primarilyonMacOS,itisrecommendedtouseMacOSExtended(Journaled).For
detailsaboutformats,go here.
• IntheSizeeld,typeinasizeforthepartition.Alternately,youcandragthebar
betweeneachpartitioninthePartition Layoutareatoquicklychangethesize.
6. Repeatthisprocessforeachpartitionyouhavecreated.
7. ClicktheApplybuttoninthelower-rightcornerofthewindow.Adialogboxwillappear
askingifyouwanttoerasetheG-Technologydrivepartition.
WARNING: THE NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.
8. ClickonthePartitionbuttontocontinue.Aprogressbarinthelower-rightcornerofthe
windowwillshowyoutheprogressofthedisk’sreformatting.
9. Whenpartitioningiscomplete,themultiplepartitionswillbedisplayedintheleftpanelof
DiskUtility.
10.QuittheDiskUtilityprogram.Afterre-initializingthedrive,thecustomiconforthe
G-Technologydrivehasbeenerased.TorestoretheG-RAIDUSBiconforeachpartitionfollow
thestepsfromtheRestoretheDrive Icon section.
11.ThemultiplepartitionsoftheG-Technologydrivewillbedisplayedonyourdesktop.Your
driveisnowsetupwithtwoormorepartitionsandisreadyforuse.