IDE Hard Drive Partition and Format Procedures
To mount HEXD3UTX in computer system under USB2.0 mode or
Network Mode, you need to make sure the hard drive inside HEXD3UTX
has a required format for your computer network environment.
Warning:
Partition and format procedures in Mac and PC will wipe out all
the previous data in the NetDisk hard drive, please back up your data first if
you wish to keep them.
Under MacOSX
For an all-Mac computer network environment or if NetDisk will be shared
among Mac computer only, you can choose to initialize HEXD3UTX into
MacOS format. However, if HEXD3UTX will be shared between Mac and
Windows Computers in a mixed network environment, you must initialize it
into MS-DOS (FAT32) format.
Procedures under MacOS 10.3 and 10.4 are described below.
1. To initialize (format) the hard drive in HEXD3UTX, please disconnect
HEXD3UTX from the network, power on and connect it to a MacOSX
system with USB cable.
2. On the desktop, click on Go > Utilities, double click to launch Disk Utility.
Select the PHR-100NDAS hard drive (orange color USB drive) in the list
and click on top Erase button.
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