Macpower & Tytech MovieStar, User Manual

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Formatting the HDD
Formatting on a
PC (Win2000/XP)
Use the Disk Management
Utility
•
Right click on “My
Computer” and choose
“Manage”
•
Select “Disk Management”
•
Choose the drive you want
to format and right click on
the Disk or drive field for
further commands
•
Create a primary partition
and format it
•
Follow the Wizard
instructions
You can also format MovieStar 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 MovieStar 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.
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
•
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 MovieStar 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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