4. Notice what appears on your screen.
If the Finder desktop appears and you see the hard disk icon in the upper-
right corner of the screen, your hard disk is fully prepared. You needn't do
any further preparation.
If instead you see a blinking question mark, your hard disk is not a startup
disk (a disk the computer can use to start up). You will need to install
system software on your hard disk to make it a startup disk.
Before you can install system software on the disk, you may also need to
initialize it (to make it usable by your computer). To find out if
initialization is necessary, continue with step 5.
5. If you see a blinking question mark on your screen, insert the System
Startup disk into a disk drive.
When the Finder desktop appears, look directly below the System Startup
floppy disk icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.
If you see the rectangular hard disk icon, you do not need to initialize your
hard disk. All you need to do is install system software on the disk.
If you do not see the hard disk icon below the System Startup icon, you will
need to initialize the hard disk, and then install system software on it.
Initializing a hard disk
You use the Apple HD SC Setup program, supplied on the System Startup disk,
to initialize and name a hard disk for the first time.
If your computer has an internal hard disk, the disk was probably initialized
at the factory and you will not need to initialize it again. (If the hard
disk's icon appears on the desktop when you start up, the hard disk has
already been initialized.)
To initialize a hard disk, shut down your computer, then follow these steps:
1. If the hard disk is external, switch it on.
2. Insert the System Startup disk and then switch on the computer.
3. Open the System Startup icon by double-clicking it.
4. Start Apple HD SC Setup by double-clicking its icon.
The program's main dialog box appears.
5. If you don't see the message telling you the drive is uninitialized at
the bottom of the screen, click the Drive button to select the hard disk you
want to initialize.
The selected disk's SCSI device number is displayed above the Drive button
(the device number for internal hard disks is always 0). The disk's name, or
a message telling you the drive is uninitialized, is shown in the message
area at the bottom of the dialog box.
6. When the message telling you the disk is uninitialized and the device
number of the hard disk you want are displayed, click Initialize.
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