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The Disk Utility is used to format and partition
drives. It can be found under
Applications
→
Utilities
→
Disk Utility
.
Partitioning a disk means the creating of
separate volumes on a single physical disk. We
will create only a single volume on the disk.
Start the Disk Utility and follow the steps be-
low.
1.
Select
SSD
2
go
from the list of disks, and
then select the
partition
tab, and set the
Partition Layout to 1 Partition as in
2.
Click on
options...
and change the partition
scheme to
Master Boot Record
3.
Change the
Name
to “SSD2go”. For the
Format
Choose
exFAT
if you want to use your
SSD
2go
with both Windows and Mac OS X.
For the other formats, read the Choosing a file
system section.
4.
Click “Apply” and then “Partition” when you
have made a choice (
). The partition will
now be created and mounted.
CONFIGURING ON MAC OS X
fig. 15
fig. 16
Warning !
After clicking “Apply” all files on the SSD
2
go
will be deleted!
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