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<h1><img src="images/l_pdrdy.gif" width="28" height="28" alt="Physical Drive">&nbsp;Initializing physical drives</h1>

<p>Use this action to erase the metadata for a ready physical drive. The metadata includes all logical device
definition data.
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<p>To initialize a physical drive: </p>
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  <li>In the <a href="cusegui4.htm">Physical devices view</a>,
  click <img src="images/drive.gif" width="28" height="20">
    (physical drive).<br>
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  <li> Right-click <b>Initialize</b>. <br>
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  <li>Click <b>Yes</b> to initialize the drive.
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  <img src="images/note.gif" width="15" height="17"> <b>Note:</b> To check the progress of the operation, switch to <a href="cusegui9.htm#textvu">text view</a>.</p>
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<h2>More information</h2>

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  <li><a href="averifypd.htm">Verifying physical drives</a></li>
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