Chapter 5
Initialization and formatting the hard disk
5-1 Initialization in Windows 2000 / XP/ Vista
/WIN7
CAUTION!
Partitioning and formatting a disk drive will delete the data in the HDD. We assume NO
responsibility for your data lost if without a backup before your proceed Partitioning and formatting.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to
initialize a hard disk on the system of WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA/WIN7 OS
With Windows 2000/XP/VISTA/WIN7
use the “
Disk Management
” program to install your disk.
This program is located in “Computer Management”.
Windows can support a disk volume at FAT32 over 32GB, but the format utility cannot format the
disk volume over 32GB. If you want to format a disk volume at FAT32 mode over 32GB then you
need the third party’s utility to format the disk volume. Like the “Partition Magic” from “Power
Quest”.
5-2 Initialization in Windows ME / 98SE
Execute the “
FDISK
” program at the “MS-DOS” prompt to initialize and format the USB 4XHDD in
Windows ME/ 98 SE environment.
For addition, please refer to a help file of Windows.
# Under Windows 98SE/Me you cannot format a disk volume over 32GB under Windows 98SE/Me
user use FDISK (Under DOS). FDISK does not support over 137GB HDD. You need the third
party’s utility to format a disk volume over 32GB on windows Me and 98.
5-3 An initialization procedure in Mac OS X
Execute
“Disk Utility”
to initialize an individual disk. Please initialize the disk volume with “Mac
OS expansion”!
# Normal mode Initialization
The very first time you use the USB 4X HDD in normal mode, Mac only shows the master HDD,
you will need to execute the “Disk Utility” to partition the slave HDD.
