User Manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows

WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.

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 FAT32.

7. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are nished!

8. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE ev will be erased. No icons are

available for FAT32.

With the FAT32 format you will be able to read/write on Windows 8, 7 and Vista (with

reformat), as well as Mac OS 10.7+ machines.

Limitations with FAT32

There are some limitations when using FAT32.

The ‘MS-DOS File System’ cannot write les over 4 GB. If you are working with les over

4 GB, you may want to choose a software option like MacDrive, www.macdrive.com.

MacDrive is a Windows software that enables you to mount Mac-formatted drives on

your Windows computer.

4. Select MS-DOS File System from the Format pop-up menu. This will format the drive to

FAT32.

NOTE: You may need to rename the drive because FAT32 does not support more than

11 characters in the drive name.

5. Click the Erase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear

asking if you want to erase the G-DRIVE ev partition.