Formatting Your Fantom Drives External Hard Drive; Formatting Your Drive; Formatting The Drive In Mac Os X; Mac Users - Fantom Drives G-Force Megadisk Quick Start Installation Manual

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How to Safely Dismount
and Turn Off Your G-Force
Megadisk Black
When a device such as a hard drive is mounted, the computer
'sees' the device and is able to communicate with it. When you
dismount a device, the computer will commit any outstanding
I/O and no longer recognizes the disk, preparing the disk to be
disconnected from the computer in an orderly fashion.
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
Left-click on the hot plug icon (
on the bottom right of your screen. You will receive the alert
message "Safely Remove.." followed by the drive description and
drive letter for the device.
(eSATA) If the ( ) icon does not appear it means that the current
installed driver for your eSATA host bus adapter does not support
hot plugging- this may be due to a hardware limitation or simply
that this feature is missing from the driver installed. Check with
your eSATA host bus adapter vendor for updated drivers.
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.
) in your system tray, located

Formatting Your Drive

The G-Force Megadisk Black comes preformatted at the factory
with the NTFS file system, the native file system for Windows. Linux
and MacOSX 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 Megadisk Black is
ready to use!
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