G-Technology G Drive slim, Product Manual

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Maintenance for Your Drive
G DRIVE
slim ®
Initialize Drive for Mac
G-DRIVE slim was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for 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 below will appear. Your
G-DRIVE slim will be displayed in the left-hand column.
2. Select G-DRIVE slim by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Information
about the drive willl 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.