Using Portable Hard Drive With Windows - Verbatim Portable Hard Drive User Manual

2 Locate the icon for your Verbatim hard drive on the desktop, and drag it
to the trash.
3 After the drive icon disappears from the desktop, you can safely unplug
the drive. Note that the drive's green LED will remain ON until the drive
has been unplugged.
You may also simply shut down your computer with your Verbatim hard
drive connected, and then disconnect it.
Using the Portable Hard
Drive with Windows
Your Verbatim hard drive comes pre-formatted as HFS+, the preferred
format when used exclusively with Apple Macintosh computers running Mac
OS. To use the hard drive on a Windows system you will need to reformat
your hard drive once so it can be recognized by Windows computers. (It
will still be recognized by Apple Macintosh computers, too.)
Follow the steps in the separate section Formatting the Portable Hard Drive
for Windows if you ever intend to use your hard drive with a Windows
computer. If you primarily use a Mac OS computer and wish to share it with
a Windows computer, you may fi nd the steps outlined in Formatting for
Windows Under Mac OS a more convenient procedure for preparing your
Verbatim hard drive for Windows use.
Before proceeding, be sure that your Windows computer has a 6-pin
FireWire (1394a) port available. For convenience, your Verbatim hard drive
draws its power from this cable. Some computers provide 4-pin FireWire
ports only. Since 4-pin ports do not supply power, you will need to obtain a
6-4 pin FireWire cable and separate A/C adapter to use your Verbatim hard
drive with this computer.
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