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ROCSECURE – Rocsafe MX User Manual
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8 Helpful Information
8.1 Partitioning and formatting your hard drive
In order to use a new hard drive with Rocsafe MX, you will have to partition and format the drive. Follow these
steps to do so:
Windows XP
1. Connect and authenticate into Rocsafe MX.
2. Right click on My Computer and Select Manage.
3. From the Computer Management window, select
Disk Management.
4. Right click on the drive and choose Initialize.
5. Right click on the drive and select New Partition.
6. Follow the New Partition Wizard to create as many
partitions as desired.
7. Right click on each partition and select Format to
format the drive in either FAT32 or NTFS.
8. The drive is ready to be used once formatting
completes.
Mac
1. Connect and authenticate into Rocsafe MX.
2. Enter the Applications folder, followed by the
Utilities folder
3. Run Disk Utility.
4. Select Rocsafe MX on the left hand column and click
on the Partition tab.
5. Choose the number, size and names of the desired
partitions.
6. Mac OS will then format the drives automatically.
7. The drive is ready to be used once formatting
completes.
CAUTION:
Performing partition and format operations will erase all data in the drive.
Note:
• You must have Administrator privileges to use the Disk Management utility.
For drives larger than 137GB, you will need Windows SP3 for Windows 2000 and SP1 for Windows XP.
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