Product manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows

WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.

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 with Thunderbolt will be erased.

No icons are available for Fat32.

With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows 8, 7 and Mac

OS 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.