User Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive
4. Select the default G-DRIVE PRO TB 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-DRIVE PRO TB icon into the Get Info
window. (below right)
The icon for your G-DRIVE PRO TB 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 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 sections
of its space can be used for dierent purposes. For instance, 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 like Final Cut Pro.
The following steps will guide you through this simple process of partitioning your
drive. In this example, we will partition a 1TB G-DRIVE mobile with Thunderbolt.
The steps will be identical for your drive, only the name may be dierent.
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-Technology drive will be displayed in the left-hand column.