Formatting Your Drive For Windows - Maxtor OneTouch User Manual

You may customize Retrospect to create backup copies of
your files which will include revisions made on a daily basis.
See the help system in Retrospect for Windows or the
Retrospect Express User's Guide for Macintosh, included on
the install CD.
Your hardware and software installation is now complete. See
"Using Your Drive" on page 37 in chapter 3, for information on
using your drive for common applications and on using Retrospect
to make copies of your important files and restore copied files.

Formatting Your Drive for Windows

Optional for Windows 98/2000/Me/XP
Your Maxtor OneTouch drive was formatted at the factory with the
Windows FAT32 file system. This file system is compatible with
Mac OS 9 and recent versions of the Windows operating system.
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 35.
If you plan to share data between two Windows systems,
review "Moving Data Between Two Systems" on page 47 in
chapter 3.
Your 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"My drive shows less capacity
than on the box label" on page 68 in chapter 6.
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