How to initialize a hard disk – Apple Power Macintosh 9500 Series User Manual

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How to initialize a hard disk

You initialize an Apple SCSI hard disk by using a program called
Drive Setup, which is on the floppy disk labeled Disk Tools that came with
your computer. If your computer came with a CD-ROM player and you didn’t
receive floppy disks, you can find Drive Setup on the CD-ROM disc that
contains system software. (To initialize a hard disk from another
manufacturer, use the utility software that came with the hard disk.)

1

Start up your computer from the

Disk Tools disk or the CD-ROM disc that contains

system software.

See “Starting Up From a CD-ROM Disc” or “Starting Up From a Floppy
Disk” earlier in this section.

2

Open the Drive Setup icon.

You may need to look in a folder called Utilities to find Drive Setup.

3

In the list of drives, click the disk you want to initialize.

4

Click Initialize to initialize the hard disk.

5

Click Quit when you see a message reporting that initialization was successful.

If a message reports that initialization failed, try again. If initialization
fails a second time, take the disk to your Apple-authorized service provider
for repair.

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Click the drive you want to initialize...

...then click Initialize.

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