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Mac OS X Formatting Instructions
Since your ForteRAID comes pre-formatted for Macintosh you don’t need to format them on installation. If
you decide to reformat or partition your drive at a later date, use Disk Utility (supplied with the Mac OS X
operating system).
Caution: This procedure will destroy any data currently on the drive. Before formatting a drive, save any important
data it contains.
1. Open Disk Utility:
-Double click on your internal hard drive mounted on the desktop
-Open Applications Folder > Utilities Folder > double click on Disk Utility
2. Select your ForteRAID drive from the list on the left. The top entry represents the device and the entry un-
derneath it represents the volume associated with that device. Click on the top device which will say some-
thing like “XXXGB Glyph Technologies”.
3. Click the “Erase” tab on the right side of the screen.
4. Choose the desired volume format from the drop-down list. Glyph recommends the default “Mac OS Ex-
tended (Journaled)”.
5. Click in the “Name” field and type the desired name for the drive. This name will identify the drive on the
desktop.
6. Click the “Install Mac OS 9 Disk Driver” button if you would like your drive to be compatible with OS 9.
7. Click the “Erase” button to erase your drive. Your new drive should automatically mount on the desktop as
a Glyph volume.
Mac OS 9 Formatting Instructions
Since Glyph drives come pre-formatted for Macintosh you don’t need to format them on installation. If you
decide to reformat or partition your drive at a later date, you can use the Erase Disk command in the Mac
OS 9 operating system. This command will erase all the data on a volume and create a new file system. Erase
disk will not allow you to re-partition a FireWire drive or create a different volume structure than what was
previously there.
Caution: This procedure will destroy any data currently on the drive. Before formatting a drive, save any important
data it contains.
1. Select the volume by clicking on it once in the Finder
2. Go to the Special menu and select Erase Disk... The Erase Disk dialog box opens to verify your decision to
erase the disk.
3. In the Name field, enter the new name for the disk or leave the name as it is.
4. In the Format drop-down menu, choose an Extended volume and click “Erase”.
