Initialize The Drive For Mac - G-Technology G-RAID with Thunderbolt Product Manual

Initialize the Drive for Mac

G-RAID with Thunderbolt is factory formatted or "initialized" for use with Mac OS. You can follow
these steps to reinitialize your drive if you would like to quickly erase the contents of the drive.
1. Open the Disk Utility application. Disk Utility is located on your hard drive under
Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-RAID with
Thunderbolt will be displayed in the left column.
2. Select G-RAID with Thunderbolt by clicking its drive icon in the left 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.
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