User Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive
Initialize Drive for Mac
G-DRIVE PRO TB was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS. You can
reinitialize if you would like to quickly erase the contents of the drive. Here are
the steps.
1. First, 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-DRIVE DRIVE PRO TB will be displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select the G-DRIVE PRO TB by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Informa-
tion about the drive willl be displayed at the bottom of the window.
3. Select the Erase tab to view the formatting options. By default, the Format pop-up
menu is set to the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) option.
4. Choose the Format option that you prefer.
• Mac OS Extended (Journaled): Use this format if you intend to use the drive for Time
Machine or to create a separate bootable installation of OS.
• Mac OS Extended: 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 PRO TB partition.