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PC running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista
You need to open the Disk Management Program.
Go to the Start menu --> Control Panel --> Administrative
1.
Tools --> Computer Managment
Select “Disk Management”
2.
Choose the drive you want to format and right click on it for
3.
further commands (Choose New Partition)
Follow the Partition Wizard to setup your disk
4.
It is recommended that you format the hard drive using the in-
terface you will most likely be accessing the drive with.
For Win2000
and WinXP, the
NTFS file format is
recommended.
If the NTFS file
system is used,
the drive will only
be recognized on
Win2000 and WinXP.
Mac OS X can see the
drive and read data from
it but can not write to it.
If you plan to use the
drive on a Mac and PC,
format the drive with
the Mac using MS-DOS
Format.
Formatting on
Win2000/XP
using FAT32,
the biggest single par-
tition you can create
will be 32GB. To create
larger partitions, use
the DOS command
under WinME or use
third-party software.
