Formatting Your Drive - Maxtor Personal Storage 5000DV User Manual

Formatting Your Drive

Optional for Windows 98/2000/Me/XP
Your Maxtor Personal Storage 5000 drive was formatted at the
factory with the Windows FAT32 file system. This file system is
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compatible with Mac OS 9 and recent versions of the Windows
operating system.
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The FAT32 file system limits any file to a maximum size
of 4 GB. If you are running Windows 98 or Me, consider
upgrading to Windows 2000 or XP to take advantage of
the NTFS file system.
If you are running either the Windows 2000 or XP
operating system, consider reformatting your drive to the
NTFS file system. The NTFS file system provides several
advantages, including support for very large files. See
"Formatting Your Drive with NTFS" on page 14.
If you plan to share data between two Windows systems,
review "Moving Data Between Two Systems" on page 22.
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We require that you format your drive to the Mac OS
Extended format (also called HFS Plus) once it is installed on
your Macintosh computer. See "Formatting Your Drive for
Mac OS" on page 15.
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You new drive will display a drive capacity that is slightly less
than the capacity stated on the box. This is normal. For a
complete explanation, see page 29 of "Troubleshooting and
FAQs."
14 Installing the Drive
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Formatting Your Drive with NTFS
This section describes how to format your drive with the
NTFS file system for Windows 2000 or XP.
Formatting the drive destroys all data contained on
that drive. Make a backup copy of all your data
before formatting your drive.
To format the drive for NTFS
Select Start ➔ Settings ➔ Control Panel.
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Double-click Administrative Tools.
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3. Double-click Computer Management.
4. Double-click Disk Management (located under the
Storage icon).
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To format into two or more logical partitions, use the
partitioning feature in the Disk Management utility.
For more information, press F1 to access Help and
enter partition in the keyword field.
Right-click on the icon for your new drive in the
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window that appears.
FAT32 should be listed in the column labeled
File System.
Select Format from the menu.
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7. Select NTFS in the File System field.
8. Click OK when you are ready to format your drive.
Formatting time varies based on your system speed,
the interface used, and the drive's capacity.