Formatting Portable Hard Drive Under Windows Me - Verbatim Portable Hard Drive User Manual

It is recommended that you select the Perform Quick Format checkbox.
A standard format could take several hours.
Verify the settings, and then click
f f
hard drive.
7 When formatting has fi nished, the hard drive will display the volume name,
the drive letter, the size of the partition (in GB), the fi le system used (FAT32
or NTFS), and a healthy status.
The hard drive is now available to use.
Formatting the Portable Hard Drive Under
Windows Me or Windows 98 SE
Follow these steps if you are using Windows Me or Windows 98 SE while
formatting your Verbatim hard drive for Windows.
Formatting deletes all information on the drive. Double check each step
before execution to ensure that you are formatting the correct drive.
Information that is lost may be irretrievable.
1 Follow the instructions in Connecting the Portable Hard Drive to a
Windows Computer located earlier in this document.
2 From the Start menu, click on Run, type command and press Enter.
You should see a small black MS DOS window with a prompt such as
c:\Windows.
3 Type fdisk and press Enter. Type k
window that asks if you wish to enable large disk support.
4 You will be presented with a menu of fi ve items. You should type 5 to
select the "Change current fi xed disk drive" option then hit the Enter key.
5 You will see a list of hard drives. Your main internal hard drive will be
Disk 1. Any other hard drives will be listed as 2, 3, etc. If you have only
one hard drive in your computer, drive 2 will be the Verbatim hard drive.
You can also verify which drive on the list is the Verbatim hard drive by
the size under Mbytes. The number should be a little less than the size
marked on the product label of your hard drive. Type the number that
represents the Verbatim hard drive and press Enter.
k to begin formatting the
Finish
Y Y (or just hit the Enter key) in the
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