Home Station User Guide
2.2 HDD Setup
For brand new hard drives, a partition has to be created first and it has to be formatted. Be
aware that formatting the drive will erase all existing data on it! Connect the USB drive to
your computer and turn it on.
2.2.1 Formatting on a PC
(Win2000/XP/Vista)
Use Disk Management:
•
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 NTFS
partition
(basic disk) and
format it by following the
instructions
Note: For Win2000, WinXP and Vista, we recommend formatting the drive using the NTFS
file system.
If you are using the FAT32 file system to format the drive on Win2000, WinXP or Vista, the
biggest single partition you can create will be 32GB. To create larger partitions, you need
to use a 3
rd
party application. The file size for a single file on FAT32 is limited to 4GB!
2.2.2 Formatting on a Mac
(Mac OS 10.2 or above)
Use the Disk Utility:
•
Select “Disk Utility” in the
utilities folder
•
Choose your external drive
and format it according to
your requirement
•
We recommend creating
one single partition and
formatting it using “
Mac OS
Extended
”
Note: For Mac OS X, we recommend formatting the drive using its native file system HFS+
(Mac OS Extended).
If you are using the FAT32 file system (MS-DOS), it will also be compatible with the PC but
the file size for a single file on FAT32 is limited to 4GB!
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