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Formatting Your Drive

The GForce3 Mega 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 “GUID Partition Map” in the

dialog box and click “OK”.

6. Click “Apply.” Your Fantom Drives GForce3 Mega is ready to use!

Formatting the drive on

Windows Hosts

1. Open the disk management console. A list of the attached

drives and their respective volumes will appear. Select the

GForce3 Mega Disk.

The Disk Management Console can be accessed by right-

clicking on the "My Computer" icon (

) and selecting

"Manage" from the drop down menu. Disk Management is

found under "Storage" in the resultant window. For additional

information, please see

http://www.fantomdrives.com/helpdesk/faq.php

2. Right-click on the drive letter and select Format in the pop-up

menu. The Format dialog box will appear.

If the hard disk is not signed for use, the New Partition option

is unavailable (superimposed no-entry icon). In this case a

signature can be written on the hard drive

by right clicking on the disk description

window and selecting "Initialize Disk".

3. Under Capacity, verify the drive capacity. It

should be close to the stated capacity of your drive in gigabytes.

4. In the File System pop-up menu, select NTFS. The default

formatting option is full format. A full format will fully verify the

disk media. A Quick format is quick, but will do less verifying of

the drive than a full format. Click Start. Once the format process

is complete, your external hard drive is ready to use.

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