User guide

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Formatting the HDD

For brand new hard drives, a partition has to be created first and it has to be formatted. Be

aware that formatting the drive will erase all existing data on it! Connect the drive via USB or

FireWire connection to your computer and turn it on.

Formatting on Windows

Using Disk Management:

• Right click “My Computer”

and choose “Manage”

• Select “Disk Management”

• Choose the drive you want

to format and right click on

the disk or drive field for

further commands

• Create a primary NTFS

partition (basic disk) and

format it by following the

partition wizard

For Win2000, WinXP and Vista,

we recommend formatting the

drive using the NTFS file

system.

Note: If you are using the FAT32 file system to format the drive on Win2000, WinXP or

Vista, the biggest single partition you can create will be 32GB. To create larger

partitions, you need to use a 3rd party application. The file size for a single file on

FAT32 is limited to 4GB!

Formatting on Mac OS X

Use the Disk Utility to format

your drive and create a single

partition on your external disk.

• Select “Disk Utility” in the

utilities folder

• Choose your external drive

and format it according to

your requirements.

• For Mac OS X, we

recommend creating one

single partition and

formatting it using “Mac OS

Extended”

Note: For Mac OS X, we recommend formatting the drive using its native file system

HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). If you are using the FAT32 file system (MS-DOS), it will also

be compatible with Windows but the file size for a single file is limited to 4GB!

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