G-Technology Portable Media Storage G-Technology G-DRIVE mini 1 TB External Hard Drive User Manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows
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5. Click the Erase button. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will
show the progress of the disk’s reformatting. Your drive will be formatted to its full
capacity as FAT32.
6. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are nished!
7. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE will be erased. No icons are
available for FAT32.
With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows XP, Vista, and
Windows 7 and on Mac OS X machines.
Limitations with FAT32
There are some limitations when using FAT32.
The ‘MS-DOS File System’ cannot write les over 4 GB. If you are working with les over
4 GB, you may want to choose a software option like MacDrive, www.macdrive.com.
MacDrive is Windows software that enables you to mount Mac formatted drives on
your Windows computer.
NOTE: You could format your drive on a Windows machine FAT32. However, Windows
currently limits FAT32 partitions to only 32GB in size.

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