If you want to use your drive on
a PC running Microsoft
Windows as well as on your
Mac, we recommend you to
use a PC to format the drive.
Choose FAT32 when formatting
and do not change anything on
the partition or format on your
Mac, otherwise the PC will not
be able to recognize the drive
anymore.
If you can not see the drive,
make sure the jumper settings
of your hard drive are correct,
there are no extension conflicts
and the power is turned on!
Mac OS
:
Mac OS9.2 and earlier, does not support creating partitions on an external drive. To do that, you
would need to purchase additional 3
rd
party software. Initializing is no problem on all Operating
Systems.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk Utility to format and create partitions on your external disk.
•
Select “Disk Utilities” in the utilities folder
•
Choose your external drive and format it according to your requirement
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