Product manual

p.43

Maintenance for Your Drive

G DOCK

™

with Thunderbolt™

WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.

6. Click the Erase button to continue. A progress bar in the lower right corner of

the window will show the progress of the disk’s reformatting.

7. After the drive is reinitialized, you should automatically see the Time Machine

dialog box.

• Click the Use as Backup Disk button if you want to use the drive with

Time Machine.

• Click the Don’t Use or Decide Later button if you do not want to use

Time Machine at this point.

8. Quit the Disk Utility program. After reinitializing the drive, the custom icon for

G-DRIVE ev has been erased. You can optionally restore this icon with the steps on

the next page.