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How to Safely

Dismount and Turn Off

Your G-Force

What do 'mounting' and 'dismounting' mean? When a device

such as a hard drive is mounted, that means the computer

‘sees’ the device and is able to communicate with it. When you

dismount a device, the computer no longer sees it. The device

may still be running but the computer cannot access it, as

though the device no longer exists.

Never turn off or unplug a hard drive without dismounting it first.

Doing so could cause data on the drive to be lost or damaged.

How to safely dismount and turn off the

drive with the computer running

Mac Users

Drag the icon for the External Hard drive to the Trash. The drive will

dismount and you can then safely turn if off. You may then unplug the

power cord and data cable if you want to disconnect the drive.

PC Users

1. Locate the System Tray. The System Tray includes the time

display in the bottom right, and icons to the left of the time. One
of the icons will be an hot plug icon ( ).

2. Left-click on ( ). You will receive the alert message “Safely

Remove..” followed by the drive description and drive letter for

the device.

3. Left-click on the appropriate device (with the drive letter

matching the one used by the External Hard drive). After a few

seconds, Windows will give you a message that it is safe to

remove the device.

Formatting Your Drive

The G-Force comes preformatted at the factory with the NTFS file

system, the native file system for Windows. Linux and Mac OSX

hosts require a third-party driver such as NTFS-3G to achieve full

read/write capability with NTFS volumes. If you intend to use this

drive exclusively on MacOSX it is advised to reformat your disk with

the HFS ("Mac Extended") file system.

Formatting a hard drive erases all data contained on it. Please

be sure to create a copy of the files you wish to keep to another

location before reformatting.

Formatting the drive in Mac OS X

1. Launch the “Disk Utility” application located in Applications/Utilities.

2. Highlight your new drive and select the “Partition” tab

3. Select the new partition map type.

4. For each partition in the volume scheme, select the desired

file system format and volume name (optional)

Although it is possible to format using the DOS file system, we

do not recommend this as an artificial capacity limit may be

imposed on the drive and performance will be unpredictable.

5. Click the “Options” button. Select “Apple Partition Map” in the

dialog box and click “OK”.

6. Click “Apply.” Your Fantom Drives G-Force is ready to use!