There is an OS X application called Disk Utility (successor to Disk Setup) that has to be somewhere on the 10.2 installation disk or one of the other disks that come with the install package. It will let you initialize the new disk, and you can even partition it really easily if you wish to do that. --Steve At 10:50 PM -0500 8/4/03, Bill Metcalfe wrote: >I thought I could initialize the new Hard drive with the OSX 10.2 >Installation disk, but cannot find a way to do it.