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Maintenance for Your Drive

G SPEED Q

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initialize

Initialize Drive for Mac

G-SPEED Q was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS X. You can reinitial-

ize if you¹d like to quickly erase the contents of the drive, or if you recongure the RAID

mode. Here are the steps.

1. First, open the Disk Utility program. This application is located on your hard drive un-

der Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-SPEED

Q will be displayed in the left-hand column.

2. Select the G-SPEED Q 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.

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