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<blockquote data-quote="sharonhardy" data-source="post: 863545" data-attributes="member: 103138"><p>The drives didn't come with any documentation, but I checked the OWC website, where I purchased them. According to them, the drives are plug-and-play...no jumpers to worry about.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't find any information as to what file system they are using. In Disk Utility, it says it's Partition Map Scheme is "Unformatted."</p><p></p><p>OWC actually has documentation about how to format the hard drive. It first says to connect both the data and power cable. I'm not sure what that means?</p><p></p><p>Hoping for the best, I continued to move forward. Because it's an Intel-based Mac, I checked GUID Partition Table in the "Partition" menu, as instructed. The documentation then tells me to name the drive and click the Partition button. On my computer, however, it won't let me name the drive and there is no Partition button.</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts? I assume that because the Disk Utility and the System Profiler recognizes the drives, they are at least installed correctly? Now I just need to figure out how to format them?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for any help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sharonhardy, post: 863545, member: 103138"] The drives didn't come with any documentation, but I checked the OWC website, where I purchased them. According to them, the drives are plug-and-play...no jumpers to worry about. I couldn't find any information as to what file system they are using. In Disk Utility, it says it's Partition Map Scheme is "Unformatted." OWC actually has documentation about how to format the hard drive. It first says to connect both the data and power cable. I'm not sure what that means? Hoping for the best, I continued to move forward. Because it's an Intel-based Mac, I checked GUID Partition Table in the "Partition" menu, as instructed. The documentation then tells me to name the drive and click the Partition button. On my computer, however, it won't let me name the drive and there is no Partition button. Any thoughts? I assume that because the Disk Utility and the System Profiler recognizes the drives, they are at least installed correctly? Now I just need to figure out how to format them? Thanks for any help! [/QUOTE]
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