Apple Macintosh 6500 - Manual (Page 161)

1 Start up your computer from 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 Double-click the Drive Setup icon.
You may need to look in a folder called Disk Tools 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.
WARNING Initializing a disk erases any information that may be on it.
Before you initialize a damaged disk, try to repair it as described in
“Repairing a Damaged Disk” earlier in this chapter.
161 Troubleshooting
To initialize a disk, you click it to select it...
...then click Initialize.