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Partitioning/Formatting the Drive
PARTITIONING/FORMATTING A HARD DRIVE ERASES ALL DATA STORED ON THE DRIVE!
BEFORE YOU FORMAT THE DRIVE, BE SURE TO SAVE A COPY OF ANY FILES YOU WISH TO KEEP
TO ANOTHER STORAGE DEVICE.
Follow the instructions in this section if your IDE hard drive was not already
formatted prior to installation, or if you want to re-format the drive.
Formatting for Mac & PC Compatibility
If you need both PC and Mac compatibility, you have two formatting options:
1.
Format the Drive on a PC with FAT32 file system.
2.
Format the Drive on Mac OS 10.3 or later with the MS-DOS file system.
Mac OS 10.2 Users:
FAT32/MS DOS-formatted disks or disk partitions that are larger than 128 GB will
not mount on Mac OS 10.2 through 10.2.8. There are several ways to resolve
this issue:
1.
Format the Drive using the Mac OS Extended file system.
2.
Partition the Drive so that no partition is larger than 128 GB.
3.
Upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 or later. Go to
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107483
for details.
Mac OS X v.10.3+ Users:
If you connect an NTFS-formatted disk to a Mac running Mac OS X v.10.3 or
later, the computer can read the Mac-compatible files but you will not be able to
save any data to the disk.
Partitioning/Formatting the Drive in Windows 2000 or XP
If the external hard drive does not mount after you have plugged-in and turned
on your external drive, you will need to partition and format the drive by doing
the following:
1.
Right-click on My Computer, click on Manage.
2.
Click on Disk Management. A list of all the drives in your system will be
displayed.
3.
If the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard auto-starts, you can use
this wizard to initialize the hard disk and create partition/format the drive.
