User's Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive
Initialize Drive for Mac
G-DRIVE USB was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS. You can re-initialize 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 USB will be
displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select the G-DRIVE USB by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Information about
the drive will 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.