DC-SATA User Guide
If the drive does not
appear, make sure
the drivers are
installed properly
and the power is
turned on!
If you are formatting
the drive using the
file system FAT32,
the maximum size
for a single file will
be restricted to 4GB.
Mac OS can not
write to NTFS
formatted drives. To
use your device on
both platforms, we
recommend you to
use FAT32.
PC running Windows 2000, XP or Vista
For Windows 2000 and above, use the Disk Management
Program to setup your drive.
•
Right click on “My Computer” and choose “Manage”
•
Select “Disk Management”
•
Choose the drive you want to format and right click on it for
further commands (Choose New Partition)
•
Follow the Partition Wizard
For Win2000 and above, we recommend formatting the drive
using the NTFS file system.
If you are using the FAT32 file system to format the drive on
Win2000 and above, the biggest single partition you can create
will be 32GB. To create larger partitions, you need to use the
DOS command under Win98SE or WinME or change to NTFS
format.
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