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3. Review the list of hard drives show within
Disk Utility
(see Figure 10). Drives currently in
use should have a list of volume names below it. New, unformatted drives typically have
no volume names listed. Carefully select the drive you wish to format.
Note:
Some
versions of Apple
Disk Utility
incorrectly display Serial ATA hard drives as having the
Connection Type of “Slave.” Serial ATA hard drives are all in fact “Master” drives. Later
versions of Apple
Disk Utility
correctly display Serial ATA hard drives as “Master.” If your
Serial ATA hard disk is listed as “Slave,” don’t worry, its performance will not be affected.
Figure 10: Example hard drive listing
