User`s guide

Installing Your Drive 26
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A window with the message that a FAT32 Volume has
appeared on your desktop may appear and you will have
the opportunity to format your drive with the Macintosh
file format.
This is recommended for normal Macintosh users. Users
who frequently exchange files between Macintosh and
Windows, may want to keep the drive formatted as FAT32,
since the Windows operating system can read that format.
Click Reinitialize to open the Apple Disk Utility and go
to step 5.
4. Click Initialize.
The Apple Disk Utility program opens.
5. Select your new drive from the list on the left.
Make sure you select your new drive. This utility will erase
all data on your drive.
A description of the drive appears in the window.
Figure 11. OS X Disk Utility - Drive Description
The actual information in this window will vary depending on
the model and capacity of your drive. The information will
appear at the bottom of this window in OS X 10.3.
6. Select the Erase tab at the top of the window.
Figure 12. OS X Disk Utility - Erase Tab
7. Select Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), if
available, from the Volume Format drop-down list.
8. Enter a name for your drive in the Name box.
OS X 10.2
Drive doesn’t
appear on the
Desktop.
Open the Apple Disk Utility
located in the Utilities folder
within the Applications folder
on your Macintosh and
proceed to Step 5.
OS X 10.3
Drive mounts as
“Untitled Volume.”
Open the Apple Disk Utility
located in the Utilities folder
within the Applications folder
on your Macintosh and
proceed to Step 5.
Table 4: Capacity Over 137 GB