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Formatting the Drive
FORMATTING A HARD DRIVE ERASES ALL DATA
STORED ON THE DRIVE! BEFORE YOU FORMAT THE
DRIVE, BE SURE TO SAVE A COPY OF ANY FILES YOU
WISH TO KEEP TO ANOTHER STORAGE DEVICE.
STORED ON THE DRIVE! BEFORE YOU FORMAT THE
DRIVE, BE SURE TO SAVE A COPY OF ANY FILES YOU
WISH TO KEEP TO ANOTHER STORAGE DEVICE.
Follow the instructions in this section if your IDE hard drive
was not already formatted prior to installation, or if you
want to re-format the drive.
was not already formatted prior to installation, or if you
want to re-format the drive.
Formatting for Mac & PC Compatibility
If you need both PC and Mac compatibility, you have two
formatting options:
1. Format the Drive on a PC with the FAT32 file system.
2. Format the Drive on Mac OS 10.3 or later with the MS-
formatting options:
1. Format the Drive on a PC with the FAT32 file system.
2. Format the Drive on Mac OS 10.3 or later with the MS-
DOS file system.
Mac OS 10.2 Users:
FAT32/MS DOS-formatted disks or disk partitions that are
larger than 128 GB will not mount on Mac OS 10.2 through
10.2.8. There are several ways to deal with this issue:
1) Format the Drive using the Mac OS Extended file system;
2) Partition the Drive so that no partition is larger than 128 GB;
3) Upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 or later. Go to http://docs.info.
larger than 128 GB will not mount on Mac OS 10.2 through
10.2.8. There are several ways to deal with this issue:
1) Format the Drive using the Mac OS Extended file system;
2) Partition the Drive so that no partition is larger than 128 GB;
3) Upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 or later. Go to http://docs.info.
apple.com/article.html?artnum=107483 for details.
Mac OS X v.10.3+ Users:
If you connect an NTFS-formatted disk to a Mac running Mac
OS X v.10.3 or later, the computer can read the Mac-compat-
ible files, but you will not be able to save any data to the disk.
OS X v.10.3 or later, the computer can read the Mac-compat-
ible files, but you will not be able to save any data to the disk.