Formatting the HDD
Formatting on a PC (Win2000/XP/Vista)
Use the Disk Management Utility
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Right click on “My Computer”
and choose “Manage”
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Select “Disk Management”
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Choose the drive you want to
format and right click on the
Disk or drive field for further
commands
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Create a primary partition and
format it
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Follow the Wizard instructions
You can also format RMVistor using FAT32 but this will have the limitation of max disk being
32GB and max file size being 4GB.
Note: To be able to use the RMVistor on all Operating Systems, you will need to use
FAT32. To create one single disk over 32GB use the DOS command prompt and the
“fdisk” command on Win98/SE or WinME.
RMVistor supports three partition.
Formatting on a Mac (OS X)
Mac OS9.2 and earlier, do not
support creation of partitions on
an external drive. To do that,
you will need to purchase
additional 3
rd
party software,
connect the drive to the internal
IDE bus, or upgrade to OS X.
Initializing the drive can be done
on all Operating Systems.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk
Utility to format and create
partitions on your external disk.
•
Select “Disk Utility” in the
utilities folder
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Choose your external drive
and format it according to
your requirement. For Mac
only, choose “Mac OS Extended”
NOTE: To be able to use the RMVistor on all Operating Systems, you will need to use
FAT32 (max file size limited to 4GB!). To create one single disk over 32GB, use the
DOS command prompt and the “fdisk” command on Win98/SE or WinME.
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