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2. Right click on the computer, Select “Manage”, open “Disk Management” in
“Storage” of opened windows a popup will come up, here suggest a new drive
needs to be initialized. Please select the disks and click ok, it will get it initialized.
Note:
A. If you are mounting a drive which is not larger than 2TB and may using on a
Windows Vista or earlier computer, initialize with partition style MBR is
recommended.
B. If you are mounting a drive larger than 2TB, initialize with partition style GPT is
recommended, or you will get 2TB of the driver applicable and the rest will be
unable to initialize.
C. If you closed these windows by mistake or the windows have never come up,
right click on the “Disk Number” and select “Initialize Disk” it will get the windows
come up.
3. Right click on the unallocated new drive, select “New Simple Volume” it will start
to add new volume and format it.
4. Set the volume size of your new volume. You can customize the size your
expected. Or you can set the size of the volume at maximum disk space to set the
drive to one volume.
5. Assign new drive letter for the new volume. Drive letter such as C, D, E, F, G will
show in computer and explorer for application.
6. Format your new volume. You can set the file system (NTFS or FAT32), allocation
unit size and volume label here. Perform a quick format is recommended. Please
click “Next” when everything is configured.
7. Click “Finish”, it will start to format the volume.
8. The formatting will take 5 to 30 seconds. When the formatting is done, the new
volume will be ready for any application.
Others
Trouble Shooting
1. Please check if the USB hosts of the computer are working properly. Attach
ORICO device and drive to near USB hosts is recommended if you are using a
desktop computer.
2. Mount on of drive for test is recommended. Please check if the ORICO device will
work well when one drive is mounted to HDD slot1.
3. Please ensure the cable and power adapter attached properly.