Initialize Drive For Mac - G-Technology G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt Product Manual

Initialize Drive for Mac

G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt was factory-formatted, or 'initialized' , for use with 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 shown below will appear. Your
G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt will be displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select the G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt 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.
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