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Formatting Your Hard Drive
User Manual
page 39
5. Assign a drive letter or accept the default. (
Fig. 58
) Select
Next
.
6. Choose the file system format for the partition. If the partition
size is 32GB or less, the choices will include
NTFS
and
FAT32
.
Once the format is selected, you may check
Perform a quick
format,
which allows for a much faster format. While Disk Man-
agement does not check the drive for errors as extensively with a
quick format, the option does save time (
Fig. 59
). Select
Next
.
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Fig. 58
Fig. 59