Macpower & Tytech Hydra S2, User Manual

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Mac OS 

For Mac OS X, use the disk utility to format and create 

partitions on your external disk. 

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  Select “Disk Utility” in the utilities folder 

If the drive does not 

rned on! 

appear on the 

desktop, make sure

there are no 

extension conflicts

and the power is 

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If the total capacit

exceeds 2TB a

your Operating 

System does not 

support single 

volumes over 2TB, 

set the 2

y 

nd 

TB switch 

 position B and it 

ill automatically 

split the volumes 

(A+B / C+D). 

  Choose your external drive and format it according to your 

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requirements 

For Mac OS X, we recommend formatting the drive using the 

native Mac file system HFS+ also known as Mac OS Extended. 

If you want to use your drive on a PC running Microsoft 

indows as well as on your Mac, we recommend using the 

AT32 file system. On your Mac, select MS-DOS when 

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formatting it. Note: The file size for a single file on FAT32 is

limited to 4GB.