G-Technology G Drive slim, Product Manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows
G DRIVE
slim ®
6. Click the Erase button. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will
show the progress of the disk’s reformatting. Your drive will be formatted to its full
capacity as FAT32.
7. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are finished!
8. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE slim will be erased. No icons are
available for FAT32.
With the FAT32 format you will be able to read/write on Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP
and Mac OS machines.
Limitations with FAT32
There are some limitations when using FAT32.
The ‘MS-DOS File System’ cannot write files over 4 GB. If you are working with files over
4 GB, you may want to choose a software option like MacDrive,
www.macdrive.com
.
MacDrive is Windows software that enables you to mount Mac formatted drives on
your Windows computer.