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Reformatting Your Hard Drive
Your EZ Bus DTC’s hard drive is preformatted with the FAT32 Windows File
System. While the FAT32 le system is visible to the largest number of
operating systems, FAT32 does have limitations. You cannot save a le larger
than 4GB. In Windows 2000 and XP, the partition size is limited to 32GB.
The EZ Bus DTC will be usable in your system, however we recommend that
you reformat the hard drive in the following ways for the following operating
systems:
To Reformat in Windows 2000 or XP (NTFS File System):
Caution: Reformatting your hard drive will destroy any data on
the hard drive. Backup any data before you continue with this
operation.
1. Make sure the EZ Bus DTC is plugged into the USB port.
2. Open
My Computer
or
Windows Explorer
.
3. Right click on the EZ Bus DTC drive and select
Format
.
4. This will open the format window:
a. In the
File system
drop down box, select NTFS.
b. Use
Default allocation unit
size.
c. Under
Format options
:
i. Select
Quick Format
.
ii. Do not
Enable Compression
.
d. Click on the
Start
button.
5. The drive will now be reformatted.
6. To verify the reformatting of the drive:
a. Go to
My Computer
or
Windows Explorer
, right click on the EZ
Bus DTC drive, and select
Properties
from the list.
b. This will open the EZ Bus DTC hard drive properties. The
File
System
should now read NTFS.