Apple Macintosh Performa 6300CD Series - Manual (Page 88)

1 Start up your computer from the Macintosh Performa CD.
See “Starting Up From a CD-ROM Disc” in the section “Repairing a
Damaged Disk,” earlier in this chapter.
2 Open the Drive Setup program.
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 When you see a message reporting that initialization was successful, click Quit.
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.
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Click the drive you
want to initialize...
...then click Initialize.