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[. . . ] User Guide The Leader in PersonaL sTorage Copyright © Apricorn, Inc. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Anytime (GB) is used in this document: One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes; accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting. [. . . ] 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. 26 The Leader in Personal Storage 5. Right click on the section to the left where the drive number and red no entry sign are located. Select Write Signature / Initialize Disk 6. There are two types of disk storage that you can choose from: basic and dynamic. Select Basic Storage if you want to create partitions and logical drives on the disk. Select Dynamic Storage if you want to create simple volumes (dynamic disks cannot access MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows 98 or earlier versions). If you need further information on disk storage, please go to the Microsoft website. Partitioning/Formatting Your Hard Drive 1. Once you have selected your disk storage type, you will need to partition/ format your drive. 2. Right click on the drive and select New Partition. Select Primary partition and click Next. You will then need to decide on a partition size. Enter a partition size in the box provided. Be sure to select a drive letter that is not in use. www. apricorn. com 27 7. "Format this partition with the following settings" is selected by default. File System: Allocation unit size: Volume Label: Perform a Quick Format: NTFS is selected by default. Choose a name that is meaningful to you. Optional Enabling Perform a Quick Format reduces the format time significantly. However a Quick Format is less thorough and does not scan for or mark bad sectors. If you are concerned about errors on your drive do not perform a quick format. Enablefileandfoldercompression: Optional Selecting this feature gives you the option to use file and folder compression feature available to the NTFS files system. When completed, the drive properties will be shown. [. . . ] Either reformat to NTFS before using it for the first time, or backup the data before reformatting. I am unable to format my 40GB or larger Aegis Desktop with FAT 32 in Windows 2000 or XP?Windows 2000 and XP limit a FAT32 partition to 32GB. If you choose to format the drive in a larger partition, you will need to use the NTFS file system. [. . . ]