11
ROCSTOR
‐
ROCPRO
225
user
manual
Reformatting
Your
Drive
As
mentioned
previously,
all
Rocstor
hard
drives
are
formatted
as
blank
FAT32
volumes
that
are
compatible
with
most
modern
Windows
and
Macintosh
operating
systems.
However,
you
can
use
your
normal
disk
management
tools
to
erase
or
reformat
the
drive
if
needed.
For
example,
Windows
users
may
want
to
reformat
the
drive
as
an
NTFS
(new
technology
file
system)
volume,
or
Mac
OS
X
users
may
wish
to
reformat
the
drive
as
a
Mac
OS
Extended
(Journal)
or
UFS
(Unix
file
system)
volume.
Please
note
that
all
of
your
data
will
be
lost
if
the
volume
(Hard
Drive)
is
formatted
or
reformatted.
Reformatting
via
PC
(Window
based
computers)
Right
‐
click
the
Rocpro
drive
in
the
“My
Computer”
folder,
then
choose
Format.
In
the
dialog
window
that
appears,
choose
the
desired
capacity,
file
system
and
allocation
unit
size
and
then
click
Start.
Reformatting
via
Mac
Open
Disk
Utility
(/Applications/Utilities).
Select
the
drive
in
the
list
at
the
left
and
then
click
the
Erase
tab.
Choose
the
desired
volume
format,
specify
a
name
and
then
click
Erase.