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Turning Off the Drive
In most cases, the drive turns off when you turn off the computer. If not, follow these steps to turn off the drive.
1. Click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in your system tray.
2. Select
Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device
.
3. When a message is displayed that it is safe to remove the drive, press the Power button on the drive to turn it off.
Troubleshooting
If you have problems when installing or using this product, refer to this troubleshooting section or visit our support Web
site at
and search our knowledge base for more help.
**
This WD drive is preformatted as a single FAT32 partition for compatibility with all Windows operating systems. The FAT32 file system
has a maximum file size of 4 GB and cannot create partitions larger than 32 GB. Windows 2000 and XP users can overcome these file size
limitations by reformatting the drive to NTFS using the Disk Management utility. Windows 98SE and Me do not support NTFS.
System Requirements
How to
Answer ID
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install, partition, and format the drive in Windows 2000
34
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install, partition, and format the drive in Windows XP
207
!
change the drive format from the default FAT32 file system**
1287
!
format the drive to the FAT32 file system**
1364
!
use the drive on a PC and a Macintosh
®
computer simultaneously
291
Windows
Macintosh
!
An available USB port
!
An available USB port
!
Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
!
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
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