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Formatting your Fantom
Drives Titanium Hard
Disk
The Fantom Drives external hard disks are preformatted at
the factory with the FAT32 file system, which will mount
on most modern operating systems. FAT32 has some
limitations, and we recommend you reformat the volume to
a file system format more compatible with your particular
computer and operating system environment.
Formatting a hard drive erases all data contained on the
drive. If you wish to reformat your Fantom Drives External
Hard Drive, be sure to create a copy of the files you wish
to keep before reformatting.
Formatting the Drive in Mac OS X
1. Launch the Disk Utility application (Disk Utility is located
in the Utilities folder, inside the Applications folder). The Disk
Utility window will open with a small sub-window at left and a
larger sub-window with a series of tabs at the top.
2. You should see the Drive listed in the left sub-window. Click
on the drive to highlight it. Information about the Drive will
appear in the Information sub-window.
3. Click on the Erase tab. In the Erase sub-window you will
see a Volume Format pop-up menu and a Name field.
4. In the Volume Format pop-up, select the format type
(MacOS Extended is recommended.)
Although it is possible to format a hard drive on Mac OS X
using the DOS file system, we do not recommend this, as
an artificial capacity limit may be imposed on the drive.
5. Click Erase. You should see an alert pop up with the
message: “Erasing a disk will destroy all information on all
of the volumes of the disk…” Click Erase. Once initializing
is complete, you should see the drive listed in the left sub-
window of the Disk Utility screen. Quit Disk Utility. You should
now see the Drive icon on the Desktop.
Formatting the Drive in
Windows 2000/XP/2003
1. Open the disk management console. A list of the attached
drives and their respective volumes will appear. Select the
Fanton Drives Fantom Drives Titanium Disk.
The Disk Management Console can be found under
\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc on your system
drive. For an illustrated guide, please see http://www.
fantomdrives.com/support/faqs
2. Right-click on the drive letter and select Format in the
pop-up menu. The Format dialog box will appear.
3. Under Capacity, verify the Drive capacity. It should be
close to the stated capacity of your Drive in gigabytes.
4. In the File System pop-up menu, select NTFS. The default
formatting option is Full format. A Full format will take about
30-90 minutes. A Quick format will take just a few minutes,
but will do less verifying of the Drive than a Full format. Click
Start. Once the format process is complete, your External
Hard Drive is ready to use.
5. In Windows XP, it is possible to optimize the drive for
performance or quick removal. To select your desired mode,
open the device manager (located in \Windows\System32\
devmgmt.msc on your system drive.) right-click the Fantom
external disk in Disk Drives, and select properties. Select the
Policies Tab near the top left of the window, and click your
desired optimization level. press OK when finished, and you
may close the disk management applet.