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Creating a New Partition

7. Creating A New Partition:

Mac OS X 10.x.x:

Formatting a Hard Drive:

1. Start the Disk Utility tool (under Applications)

2. Select the new hard drive you are trying to install

3. Click on the “Erase” tab

4. Choose a volume format and assign a name to the new drive.

5. Click on Erase.

6. Once complete, your new hard drive should be mounted on your desktop.

Note: If the hard drive will not mount on your system, format the drive with a FAT32 or NTFS

partition first through a PC system. Once formatted, connect the NexStar Enclosure to your Mac and

run the Disk Utility tool again. You should now be able to format the drive into a Mac partition and

mount the drive

If initialization fails, do the following:

1. Choose Initialization Options from the Functions menu.

2. Click the checkbox next to "Low level format", then click OK. Choosing this

option adds significant time to the initialization process.