OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro Series Assembly Manual page 13

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro
3.2 Removing the GUID Partition Scheme
Only for XP, 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section)
Your new OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro is preformatted for use with a Macintosh.
Unfortunately, this is not readable by Windows without special software. If you
wish to use your storage solution on a computer running Windows, you will need to
repartition and reformat using the following instructions.
WARNING:
there is nothing you need to keep on your drive before running any of these commands.
Go to the DOS command prompt by selecting "Run"
➀
from the Start Menu.
cmd
Type in in text box, and hit the"OK" button.
➁
diskpart
Type
➂
list disk
Type and hit enter.
➃
select disk x
Type
➄
(Typically, you will see an asterisk (*) under "GPT" for the disk requiring formatting.)
clean
Type and hit enter.
➅
exit
Type and hit enter.
➆
Close the command prompt window.
➇
You may now proceed with formatting the drive.
clean
The command will destroy ALL data on the disk you run it on!!! Be sure
and hit enter.
replacing x with the number of the disk you want to reformat.
WARNING: The clean
command will destroy ALL data on the disk you run it on!!! Be sure
there is nothing you need to keep on your drive before running any of these commands.
Chapter 3 - Formatting