Verbatim 2-Disk RAID USB and eSATA External Hard Drive User Manual page 9

2-disk raid usb and esata external hard drive
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To change RAID mode, follow these steps:
1.
If you have any important data stored on the drive, fi rst save the data
to another storage location. Then safely remove the drive and turn off
the power to the drive.
2.
While power is OFF, use a pen or other instrument to slide the RAID
Mode Switch to the desired position.
3.
Power up the drive. The LEDs will fl ash BLUE while the internal
fi rmware is reconfi guring the RAID mode. When fl ashing turns to
solid BLUE the drive has successfully reconfi gured, though remains
initialised, unpartitioned and unformatted.
4.
Attach the drive to your host computer using either USB or eSATA.
Your computer may show it as an unknown device, which confi rms that
the drive remains initialised, unpartitioned, and unformatted.
5.
Format the drive. For NTFS or HFS+ use the computer's operating
system to reformat. If you prefer to use FAT32, then you can use the
FAT32 formatting utility that was supplied to you as a fi le saved on
your hard drive (Verbatim_FAT32_tool.exe).
To Format the drive using Verbatim FAT32 formatting utility:
Locate Verbatim_FAT32_tool.exe on your hard drive, double click the fi le
to run it. You will see a screen like this
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