Product manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive
G DRIVE
®
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 500 GB G-DRIVE mini connected via FireWire.
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.