OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Owner's Manual page 10

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay eSATA
3.4 Removing the GUID Partition Scheme
Only for XP, 2000, ME and earlier. (XP 64-BIT, Vista & Windows 7 can continue to the next section)
Your new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay eSATA solution is preformatted for
use with a Macintosh. Unfortunately, this is not readable by Windows without spe-
cial software. If you wish to use your storage solution on a computer running Win-
dows, you will need to repartition and reformat using the following instructions.
WARNING:
is nothing you need to keep on your drive before running any of these commands.
➀ Go to the DOS command prompt by selecting "Run"
from the Start Menu.
cmd
➁ Type in in text box, and hit the"OK" button.
diskpart
➂ Type
list disk
➃ Type
select disk x
➄ Type
(Typically, you will see an asterisk (*) under "GPT" for the disk requiring formatting.)
clean
➅ Type and hit enter.
exit
➆ Type and hit enter.
➇ Close the command prompt window.
You may now proceed with formatting the drive.
clean
The command will destroy ALL data on the disk you run it on!!! Be sure there
and hit enter.
and hit enter.
replacing x with the number of the disk you want to reformat.
WARNING: The clean
there is nothing you need to keep on your drive before running any of these commands.
command will destroy ALL data on the disk you run it on!!! Be sure
Chapter 3 - Formatting