Rocstor Rocpro 850 - Mac; Reformatting Your Drive; Reformatting Via PC (Window Based Computers); Reformatting Via Mac

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TheeasiestwaytosafelyunmountanexternalharddriveistodragitsFindericontotheTrash.
Analertwillnotifyyouifthedriveisinusebyanapplication.Closeanyopendocumentsor
applicationsonthedriveandtryagain.Whenthedrive’siconnolonger
appearsontheFinder’s
Desktopandthedrive’sactivitylightisgreen,youcansafelydisconnectorturnoffthedrive.
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ReformattingYourDrive
Asmentionedpreviously,allRocstorharddrivesareformattedasblankFAT32volumes
(otherwisenotedontheretailpackaging)thatarecompatiblewithmostmodernWindowsand
Macintoshoperatingsystems.However,youcanuseyournormaldiskmanagementtoolsto
eraseorreformatthedriveifneeded.Forexample,Windowsusers
maywanttoreformatthe
driveasanNTFS(newtechnologyfilesystem)volume,orMacOSXusersmaywishtoreformat
thedriveasaMacOSExtended(Journal)orUFS(Unixfilesystem)volume.
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Pleasenotethatallofyourdatawillbelostifthevolume(HardDrive)isformattedorreformatted.
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ReformattingviaPC(Windowbasedcomputers)
Right‐clicktheRocprodriveinthe“MyComputer”folder,thenchooseFormat.Inthedialog
windowthatappears,choosethedesiredcapacity,filesystemandallocationunitsizeandthen
clickStart.
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ReformattingviaMac
OpenDiskUtility(/Applications/Utilities).Selectthedriveinthelistattheleft,thenclickthe
Erasetab.Choosethedesiredvolumeformat,specifyaname,thenclickErase.
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ImportantNote
Anycable(eSATA,FireWire800,orUSB2.0)insertedbeforethedriveispoweredonhaspriority
overtheothercablesandwillbetheprimaryconnectionmethod,e.g.ifthedriveisconnected
viaFireWire800beforepoweringonthedrive,datawillbetransferredviaFireWire800.
Thedriveshouldonlybeconnectedtoacomputerviaoneinterfaceatatime.Connectionofthe
drivetoacomputerviatwoormoreinterfacesisnotrecommendedandmaypotentially
damageyourRocprodriveanddata.
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