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3.3 Preparing your hard disk for usage
Note! The steps below are only necessary if you use a new hard disk.
3.3.1 Windows 2000, XP and Vista
1. Right click the ‘My Computer’ icon.
2. Click ‘Manage’.
3. Select the option ‘Disk Management’ from the left side of the screen.
4. Right click the new hard disk and choose ‘Initialise’.
5. Click ‘Ok’.
6. Right click the new hard disk.
7. Click ‘New Partition’.
8. Click ‘Next’.
9. Click ‘Next’.
10. Click ‘Next’.
11. Choose the desired partition format (Note: when using FAT32 the partition size is
limited to 32GB).
12. Click ‘Next’.
13. Select the drive letter you wish to assign to this partition (this is not required).
14. Click ‘Next’.
15. Select the desired file system: FAT32 or NTFS.
Note! If you will only use the hard disk for Windows XP or Vista systems we
recommend you to select the NTFS file system.
16. Enter a name for the new partition in the field 'Volume label'
17. Check the checkbox near ‘Quick format’ and click ‘Next’.
18. Click ‘Finish’.
3.3.2 Mac OS X
1. Open Finder in your Dock by clicking on it.
2. Click ‘Applications’ in the left menu of the Finder.
3. Click the ‘Utilities’ folder in the right part of the Finder.
4. Click the ‘Disk Utility’ icon in the right part of the Finder.
5. Select the new USB disk in the left list of the Disk Utility.
6. Click the ‘Partition’ tab in the right part of the Disk Utility.
7. Select ‘1 partition’ as the partitioning scheme.
Note! If you will only use the hard disk for Mac OS systems, we recommend you
choose ‘Mac OS X Extended’ as the file system. If you need to use the disk on both
Mac and Windows systems, you can choose the ‘FAT32’ file system.
8. Click the ‘Partition’ button to partition the disk.