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Maintenance for Your Drive

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Reformat with Partitions

‘Partitioning’ a hard drive is the process of dividing a hard drive into separate,

discrete sections called ‘volumes’. Each volume works like a separate disk. You can

create up to 16 dierent partitions on a hard drive in OS X and each partition can

be a dierent size and format.

With hard drives getting bigger, it is useful to partition your hard drive so sections

of its space can be used for dierent purposes. For instance, segment user data from

backup data, set up a multi-boot environment with dierent Operating Systems or cre-

ate a dedicated capture scratch disk for programs like Final Cut Pro.

The following steps will guide you through this simple process of partitioning your

drive. In this example, we will partition a 500 GB G-DRIVE mini connected via FireWire.The

steps will be identical for your drive, only the name may be dierent.

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-Technology drive will be displayed in the left-hand column.

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