OWC Mercury On-The-Go - Formatting the Hard Disk Drive; Formatting on Windows 98 SE; ME

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Formatting the Hard Disk Drive
Be a w a r e t h a t t h i s w i l l d e s t r o y a l l y o u r e x i s t i n g d a t a o n t h e d r i v e !
PC running Windows 98 SE or Windows ME
1. Go to the start menu
2. Select “Run”
3. Type in “command” - press OK to conrm.
4. Type in “fdisk” and press Enter
5. Select “Y” and press Enter
6. Enter “5” to change the drive
7. Select the drive you want to format
8. Choose “1” and follow the on-screen instructions.
For best
compatibility
between dierent
Operating Systems,
use the FAT32 le
system. FAT32 can
be accessed on most
systems but the le
size for a single le is
limited to 4GB.
It is recommend-
ed to format the
hard drive using the
interface you will most
likely be accessing the
drive with.