Formatting Your Drive; Formatting The Drive In Mac Os X; How To Safely Dismount And Turn Off Your; 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
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.

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 Quad comes preformatted at the factory with the HFS
Plus file system, which will mount on Mac OS computers. If you
are not using Mac OS exclusively, we recommend you reformat the
volume to a file system format more compatible with your particular
computer and operating system environment.
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 under Applications/
Utilities folder.
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)
The recommended file system is "MacOS Extended"
5. Click the "Options" button. Select "Apple Partition Map" in the
dialog box and click "OK".
6. Click "Apply." Your Fantom Drives G-Force Quad is ready to
use!
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