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Using Your Drive on Windows
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Using Your Drive on Windows
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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 disks 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.