Sonnet TEMPO HD, Quick Start Manual

Quick Start Guide for Tempo HD (Windows Version)

9

Drive Formatting—Windows XP

Formatting prepares a hard drive for use by dividing the data area into tracks and
sectors, enabling your computer to store and retrieve data from the drive. This
section describes the process of formatting hard drives connected to the Tempo
HD, using the Disk Management Administrative Tool on systems running
Windows XP. The following instructions detail the procedure to create a simple
volume (single partition); if you need to format a drive with multiple partitions,
refer to Windows Help for details. As an alternative, you may choose to format
and partition your hard drive(s) with any software that was included with the
drive, following the included instructions. 

1.

Turn on your computer and start Windows.

2.

From the taskbar, click on Start > Control Panel. 

3.

In the 

Control Panel

window, click Performance and Maintenance. 

4.

In the 

Performance and Maintenance

window, click Administrative Tools. 

5.

In the 

Administrative Tools

window, double-click the Computer Management

shortcut 

(Figure 15)

. 

6.

In the left pane of the 

Computer Management

window, double-click Disk

Management; the 

Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard

will appear 

(Figure 16)

.

Click Next to continue. 

7.

In the 

Select Disks to Initialize

window, select the new disk (which should be

your only option), and then click Next to continue.

8.

In the 

Select Disks to Convert

window, select the new disk again (which should

be your only option), and then click Next to continue.

9.

When the next window appears (indicating the Initialize and Convert Disk
Wizard completed successfully), click Finish to close the window 

(Figure 17)

.

WARNING:

Hard drives attached to the Tempo HD will not appear under

My Computer, and can’t be used until they have been formatted; this 

also applies to drives with data on them, previously used in other computers.
Please be aware that 

formatting a drive erases any data present

.

Figure 15

Figure 16

Figure 17