Initializing Your Hard Drive - Apricorn Aegis NetDock User Manual

Initializing Your Hard Drive

1. To initialize your hard drive, you will need to go to Disk Management
in Windows. To get to Disk Management in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7,
right click " My Computer" (2000, XP) or " Computer" (Vista, 7) and
click on "Manage" in the list. If you purchased an Aegis NetDock that
already has a hard drive, you do not need to use this section
because the drive is already formatted for NTFS.
2. Double-click on Computer Management .
3. In Computer Management , you will find Disk Management under
the Storage section. Double-click on Disk Management . Windows XP
has a wizard to initialize new hard drives and may appear at this point. If
the wizard does not appear, follow the remaining instructions.
4. You will be able to easily identify the new drive in Disk Management .
The drive will show up as Unknown and Unallocated with a red no
entry sign on the disk number. If you do not see a red no entry sign
on the disk number, skip to "Partitioning/Formatting Your Hard
Drive" in the next section.
(self installed hard drives only)
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