Reformat To Fat32 - Samsung HXMU050DA - S2 Portable 500 GB External Hard Drive User Manual

Appendix
WARNING –
PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING YOUR DRIVE WILL PERMANENTLY ERASE ALL THE FILES ON THE DRIVE.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS UNLESS ALL OF YOUR FILES HAVE BEEN BACKED UP AND CHECKED
Stop & Read
FOR RELIABILITY AND READABILITY.
Partitioning and Changing File System Type
It's possible to partition your S-Series External Hard Drive and change the file system type.

Reformat to FAT32

Reformat to NTFS
Reformat in Macintosh
Reformat to FAT32
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Use Samsung USB Format Utility to format your S-Series External Hard Drive to FAT32.
(Samsung USB Format Utility is a Windows application and is available for downloaded from Samsung's
online Customer Support page.)
FAT format utility
Figure 34.
S-Series External Hard Drive
[S1 Mini] [S2 Portable]
[S2 Portable 3.0]
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