Mac Drive ToolBox - An easy way to initialize your Mac hard drive

When you buy a new hard drive, before using the drive, you need to format or initialize it. In case of the new Mac hard drives, they are already initialized in the factory and you do not have to reinitialize them. However, if you want to partition the hard drive or the drive is badly damaged and can not be repaired using the Disk First Aid (A disk repair program in Mac systems), you have to initialize it.

To format a disk drive, you can use the drive setup inside the utilities folder of the hard drive. Or else, you can also do the same using the disk utility software provided by the hard drive manufacturer. For a new user or even for a busy expert user, it is hard to locate the utilities and do needful. Hence, there arises a need of an all at a place utility to Manage Mac.

While trying to format the drive using Mac Drive Setup, the format menu offers two options, such as Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus). Mac OS Extended is compatible with only the later versions of Mac OS X 8.1 and Mac OS standard is compatible with all the versions of Mac OS. In order to initialize the drive, you may follow any of the below options:

Go to the Finder and select the hard drive, you want to initialize. Choose the option, 'Erase Disk' from the Special menu. You can see a dialog box, which contains a pop-up menu, from where you can select the partition option(Extended or Standard).

Open the application, Drive Setup. Choose the 'Initialize' option. You can see a dialog box, from where you can select the partition option.

For many novice users, it seems extremely difficult to find the options and carry out the initialization operations. In order to provide an easy disk initialization facility, there are many third-party utilities available in the name of Mac system optimizer. With highly interactive user interface and detailed instructions, these applications are extremely easy to use even on the parts of new users. Moreover, these software include many other features, such as: volume optimize, drive cloning, wiping, repairing Mac volumes etc.

Stellar Drive ToolBox is such an innovative utility to help you manage your Mac. This Mac drive ToolBox gives a single platform for drive initialize, cloning, wiping, free space optimizing etc without any haste. With easy-to-use graphical user interface and more than 12 useful modules, this utility is definitely adds an ease of usage to all Mac users.