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3.
Review the list of hard drives show within
Disk Utility
(see Figure 13). 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 13: Example Hard Drive Listing
