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7.0 Format your Hard Drive
(If the drive already appears in “My Computer”, Please skip
to 7.2)
7.1 For an un-partitioned or un-formatted new drive , it
normally does not automatically appear in “My
Computer” the first time. Please follow these steps:
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- Right key of Mouse beat ”My computer”, Choose
“Manager” choose “disk manager” of the list
- The operating interface will show on the computer,
Subarea Format following the operating interface.
7.2 Go to “My Computer” , locate the removable disk,
right click on it, and select “format” from the
drop-down list, follow the instructions to complete
the formatting process.
Note: By this method to format your drive it will result in a
single partition in largest drive capacity, which is also highly
recommended
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, the default
choice is NTFS. However, you can also choose to format the
drive with FAT32 ONLY IF the drive size if smaller or equal to
32GB.
