Setting Up a New Hard Drive Instructions

Always, always format a new hard drive out of the box. Many hard drives are sold to be read on a Macintosh, Windows, or other operating systems. It’s important to get the full capacity of a hard drive to format it before you begin to use it. This is how

Setting up New Hard Drive

  1. Eject all other hard drives except the new hard drive

  2. Open Disk Utility on a Mac (Apple) computer

  3. Select the new hard drive

    1. Click “Erase” in the middle on the top

    2. Name the hard drive

      1. “(NAME OF PROJECT)” if it’s the main hard drive

      2. “(NAME OF PROJECT)_backup” if it is a backup hard drive

      3. Sometimes we’ll use a system of letters and #’s to indicate the hard drive’s backup

        1. I.e. 1st hard drive is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1A, it’s backup is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1B, & 2nd backup is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1C.

          1. Once (NAME OF PROJECT)_1A is full, we’d start with (NAME OF PROJECT)_2A and created 2 backups of that (NAME OF PROJECT)_2B & (NAME OF PROJECT)_2C, for example

  4. Set up folder structure for new project.