User Manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows
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6. Click the Erase button. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will show
the progress of the disk’s reformatting. Your drive will be formatted to its full capacity as
ExFAT.
7. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are nished!
8. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE USB will be erased. No icons are
available for ExFAT.
With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP and on Mac
OS
machines.
Limitation with ExFAT
There are some limitations when using ExFAT.
The le format does not support Journaling which is needed for backup applications to work
correctly.