IOGear GHE835C - Manual (Page 21)

Step. 13
Power on the ION™ drive.
Congratulations! You have completed the ION™ drive
installation process.
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Installation
Once your ION™ Drive has been turned on you
should see a new hard drive ICON (or ICON’s) on
your Desk-Top (Mac Only) or with in your “My
Computer” folder (PC Only).
Note:
IOGEAR
® ION™ Drives are preformatted with FAT32. The
FAT32 format can be recognized by both Mac and PC
systems. FAT32 is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000,
XP, and Mac OS 8.6 and greater (Including 10.3).
FAT32 only recognizes partition sizes of 32GB (GigaBytes)
or less. Therefore if you have an ION™ drive with a
preinstalled hard drive that is greater than 32GB, you will
likely see two, three, or more separate partitions on your
Desk-Top or within you’re “My Computer” folder.
If you are running one of the Mac OS’s you can use the
drive utility to reformat the ION™ drive into one single
partition. It is recommended to format Mac Drives with
Apple’s HFS+ which can identify larger gigabyte size drives
and partitions.
Windows 2000 and XP can recognize both FAT32 and NTFS.
With NTFS you can reformat the ION™ drive into a single
partition. NTFS can identify larger gigabyte size drives and
partitions. Please use Windows “Computer Management” to
reformat your ION™ Drive.
Windows ® 98, 98SE, and ME only recognize drives formatted
with FAT32.