Promise Technology Pegasus2 R2+ User Manual

pArtition
Use the Partition menu to check the status of an existing partition or partitions on storage in the HDD
baysorintheMediaBay.Thedefaultstoragecongurationusesasinglepartition.Howeveryouif
havechangedtheRAIDconguration,installednewstoragedrives,orifyouwanttoaddoneormore
partition to the installed storage, use the partition menu. Note that any change to existing partition
arrangement will delete all data on the storage drive. Make sure you back up any data you wish to
save.
cHange Partition SettingS
Ifadriveisalreadypartitioned,rstejectthedriveusingthestandardejectprocessforanexternal
drive for the OS you are using.
Note that if you forget to do this, a warning
message will appear telling you that a
drivewasnotejectedproperly.Donotbe
concernedifthishappens,justclickOK in
the warning menu and continue with the
partition creation steps.
A few notes to keep in mind about partitioning and formatting drives:
• Partitioning a drive, whether it is the RAID drive or the Media Pod, is basically the same. Follow the
instructions to partition unformatted drives to be used with your operating system.
• Partitioning in Windows will format the drive with NTFS, usable in Windows.
• PartitioninginMacwillformatthedriveusingtheMaclesystem,MacOSExtended.
• The example PROMISE Utility menus show here are on a Mac, but the menus for Windows are
nearly identical, and the procedure is the same.
Improper ejection warning - Mac
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General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	Pegasus2 R2+
Category	Storage
Language	English