Installation guide

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Formatting the Drive in
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
1. Open the disk management console, located at \Windows\
System32\diskmgmt.msc on your system drive. A list of the
attached drives and their respective volumes will appear. Select
the Fantom Drives GreenDrive Quad Disk.
2. Right-click on a GreenDrive Quad volume. If it’s not initialized,
a red “No Entry”
logo will cover the disk icon. Right click on the
disk and select “Initialize Disk.” Follow the on-screen instructions.
3. Right-click the initialized volume (The area right of the disk
icon.) In the context menu, select “New Partition.” Follow the
on screen instructions. In the File System pop-up menu, select
NTFS. The default formatting option is Full format. A Full format
will take about 30-90 minutes. A Quick format will take just a
few minutes, but will do less verifying of the Drive than a Full
format. Click Start. Once the format process is complete, your
GreenDrive Quad is ready to use.
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3. Right-click ( ) the initialized volume (The area right of the disk
icon.) In the context menu, select “New Simple Volume.” Follow
the on screen instructions. In the File System pop-up menu,
select NTFS. The default formatting option is quick format, which
will take just a few minutes, but will do less verifying of the Drive
than a Full format. A Full format will take about 30-90 minutes.
Once the format process is complete, your Fantom Drives disk
is ready to use.
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