Glyph Technologies Knowledge Base

Since Glyph drives comes pre-formatted for Macintosh, you don't need to format them on installation. If you decide to reformat or partition your drive at a later date, use Disk Utility (supplied with the Mac OS X operating system).

Caution: This procedure will destroy any data currently on the drive. Before formatting a drive, save any important data it contains.

1. To open Disk Utility, double click on your internal hard drive mounted on the desktop. Open the Applications Folder > Utilities Folder > and double click on Disk Utility.

2. Select your drive from the list on the left. The top entry represents the device and the entry underneath it represents the volume associated with that device. Click on the top device which will say something like XXXGB Glyph Technologies.

3. Click the Erase tab on the right side of the screen.

4. Choose the desired volume format from the drop-down list. Glyph recommends the default Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

5. Click in the Name field and type the desired name for the drive. This name will identify the drive on the desktop.

6. Click the Install Mac OS 9 Disk Driver button if you would like your drive to be compatible with OS 9.

7. Click the Erase button to erase your drive. Your new drive should automatically mount on the desktop as a new volume.