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Formatting
your Disk Drive
The Titanium Mini Disk Drive comes preformatted at the factory with
the FAT32 file system. We provide formatting instructions in the
event that you need to reformat your Drive, or if you want to format
your Drive with a file system other than FAT32.
Formatting a hard drive erases all data contained on the
drive. If you wish to reformat your Fantom Drives External
Hard Drive, be sure to create a copy of the files you wish
to keep before reformatting.
Formatting the Drive in Mac OS X
1. Launch the Disk Utility application (Disk Utility is located in the
Utilities folder, inside the Applications folder). The Disk Utility window
will open with a small sub-window at left and a larger sub-window
with a series of tabs at the top.
2. You should see the Drive listed in the left sub-window. Click on the
drive to highlight it. Information about the Drive will appear in the
Information sub-window.
3. Click on the Erase tab. In the Erase sub-window you will see a
Volume Format pop-up menu and a Name field.
4. In the Volume Format pop-up, select the format type.
Although it is possible to format a hard drive on Mac OS X
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 Erase. You should see an alert pop up with the message:
"Erasing a disk will destroy all information on all of the volumes of the
disk..." Click Erase. Once initializing is complete, you should see the
drive listed in the left sub-window of the Disk Utility screen. Quit Disk
Utility. You should now see the Drive icon on the Desktop.
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