Fusion F2 Setup
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Mac OS Drive Formatting & Configuration (continued)
3.
Click the RAID tab in the Disk Utility window, select the Fusion
F2 drives and drag them into the disk field
(Figure 5)
.
Be careful
NOT to accidentally drag in a drive you don’t want included
in the RAID
.
4.
From the pop-up menus, select the volume format and the
RAID scheme, and then type in the name for your RAID volume
(Figure 5)
. Click the Create button.
5.
When the Creating RAID window appears, click the Create
button; the selected drives will be formatted and the RAID
volume created
(Figure 6)
. Close Disk Utility; your drives are now
ready for use and your installation is complete.
Windows Drive Formatting & Configuration
This section describes the process of formatting and configuring
Fusion F2’s drives under Windows Vista; steps for formatting under
Windows 7 and XP Professional are nearly identical
.
1.
Start Windows, and then click Start > Control Panel.
2.
In the Control Panel window, double-click Administrative Tools.
If you are using Vista and have not disabled User Account Control
(UAC), a UAC window will appear; click Continue.
3.
In the Administrative Tools window, click the Disk Management
link to launch the Disk Management application.
4.
If an Initialize Disk window appears, skip to step 12
(Figure 7)
.
Otherwise, close the Disk Management application, and then
proceed to the next step.
5.
Click the Start button, type “command window” in the Start
Search field, and then click the command prompt link to launch
the Command Prompt application
(Figure 8)
.
6.
At the command prompt, type “diskpart” (without the quotation
marks), and then press Enter. If a User Account Control window
appears, click Continue.
Figure 5
Figure 6
Figure 7
Figure 8
Support Note:
The drives included with your Fusion F2 may
have been formatted using the GUID partition table for use
with Intel-based Mac computers. If this is the case, you must “clean”
the drives following steps 5–10 before you can format the drives for
use with your Windows computer.