1. Plug the drive into the Macintosh using either the Friewire or USB cables.
2. An alert box appears saying the new drive is unreadable and asks you to initialize the drive.
3. Click Initialize.

If you see another message, Click OK.

The Disk Utility Menu appears.

4. Select your new drive from the list on the left.

! Make sure you select your new drive.
This utility will erase all data on a drive.

5. Select the Earse tab at the top of the window.
6. Select Mac OS Extended from the Volume Format drop-down list.
7. Enter a name for your drive in the Name field.
8. Select the check box next to Install Mac OS 9 Drivers.

This will allow your disk to be recognized if you start your system in Mac OS 9.

9. Click Erase to continue.
An alert dialog appears to confirm Erase process.

10. Click Erase to start the formatting procedure.