Taurus Dual-Bay Storage Enclosure for 3.5" Serial ATA Hard..., User Manual

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If the drive does not 

appear on the 

desktop, make sure 

there are no 

extension conflicts 

and the power is 

turned on! 

Mac OS 

Mac OS9.2 and earlier, does not support creating multiple 

partitions on an external drive. To do that, you would need to 

purchase additional 3

rd

 party software or upgrade to OS X. 

Initializing the drives 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 

•

  Choose your external drive and format it according to your 

requirement 

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 

Windows as well as on your Mac, we recommend you to use a 

PC to format the drive. Choose FAT32 when formatting and do 

not change anything on the partition or format on your Mac. 

Otherwise, the PC might not be able to recognise the drive 

anymore. 

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