2.1 IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF YOU PLAN ON USING YOUR DRIVE
TO BOOT ON A G3, G4, OR G5 SYSTEM
If you purchased a preconfigured Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus, your new
external hard drive has been formatted for the Macintosh as a Mac OS X Extended
(Journaled) volume, using the GUID* Partition Table scheme. This means that your
new drive is ready to use immediately out of the box if you have an Intel based
Macintosh computer.
For your new external hard drive to provide boot compatibility (meaning you wish to
run the operating system from the external drive) with Power-PC based computers
(G3, G4, G5) using Mac OS X, you will need to repartition/format the drive and change
the partition mapping from GUID to APM (Apple Partition Map**). If you do not plan
to use your new external drive as the start up drive, you do not need to perform this
procedure, your new drive will work as formatted for normal external storage use and
step by step instructions to do so are covered on the next pages of this manual.
Notes:
*GPT (GUID Partition Table) - To use the disk as a boot volume on an Intel-based
Mac, or to use the disk as a non-boot disk with any Mac with Mac OS X version 10.4 or
later.
**APM (Apple Partition Map) - to use the disk as a boot volume on a Power-PC based
Mac, or to use the disk as a non-boot disk with any Mac. If you are using Mac OS X
10.3.9 or earlier, you must repartion and format the hard drive using this method.
Apple also has an article about repartitioning, available at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600
2.2 IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF YOU PLAN ON USING YOUR DRIVE
WITH A PC SYSTEM
Please turn to section 3.4 and proceed from there to reformat your drive to use with a
PC.
Chapter 2 - Formatting
Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus
2 FORMATTING
