Rosewill RX81US-HT35B-BLK - Manual (Page 9)

External Enclosure For 3.5” SATA to USB + eSATA User Manual
The divided partition of the external HDD
Win 98SE/ME SYSTEM
FDISK is command that doing the divided partition to HDD, The
step of how to divided partition from the HDD by using FDISK as
follows:
z Plug the cable of USB into PC, and be sure that the PC has
identified HDD.
z Execute "FDISK" under the model of COMMAND.
z After enter the FDISK program [If the FDISK program does not
work, please restart your PC again (don't plug out the USB
HDD) then it will be work]. Firstly select "The fifth item" -- select
the USB HDD you want to divided partition for, then just see
the illustration as follows: Then just follow the instruction to
divided partition for the HDD of USB.
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Plug the HDD into your system, it will appear the hot plug a play.
Just click “Control Panel”/ “manage tool” / “computer
management” / “Disk management”. All the disk connects to the
PC will appear on the chart, as well as the state of the HDD. Find
out the HDD and click the right bottom of the mouse under the
state of chart, just follow the step. Take a look of the icon on the
bottom.
Mac OS
Mac OS9.2 and earlier version does not support creating partition
on an external HDD. For your new HDD, you need to purchase
additional 3
rd
party software to creating your HDD partition.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk Utility to format and divided partitions
on your external disk.
• Select “Disk Utilities” in the utilities folder.
• Choose your external drive and format it.
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