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Reformatting Your Hard Drive

Your

Aegis Mini’s

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2000 and XP, and you can not create a partition larger than 32GB. The

Aegis

Mini

will be usable in your system, however we recommend that you reformat the

hard drive using the following method for Windows 2000 and XP:

Reformatting Windows 2000 or XP (NTFS File System):

1. Open “My Computer” or “Windows Explorer”.

2. Right click on the

Aegis Mini

drive and select Format.

3. This will open the format window:

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b. Use “Default allocation unit” size.

c. Under Format options:

i. Select Quick Format. (Optional)

ii. Do not Enable Compression.

d. Click on the Start button.

4. The drive will now be reformatted.

5. Verify the reformatting of the drive:

a. Go to My Computer or Windows Explorer, right click on the

Aegis

Mini

drive, and select Properties from the list.

b. This will open the

Aegis Mini

hard drive properties. The File System

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Instructions for reformatting Windows Vista:

Cut & paste or type the URL below into your Internet browser or click the link

below: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/d9a4d35e-

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Reformatting your hard drive will destroy any data on the

hard drive. Backup any data before you continue with this

operation.