External Hard Disk Drive User Manual

10
Formatting the Hard Drive︱
WARNING! Formatting the disk will erase all of the data on your StoreJet
®
18.
You must have Administrator Rights to format in Windows 2000, XP, or Vista.
Windows
®
2000/XP
1. Download the StoreJet
®
Format Utility from Transcend’s online Download Center at
http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/index.asp (the software can be located
by selecting “Storage Devices -> StoreJet
®
Drives -> any StoreJet
®
product -> any
StoreJet
®
model)
2. When the download is complete, extract the downloaded ZIP file to your computer’s hard
drive (not the StoreJet
®
18) and run the StoreJetFormatter.exe application.
3. Plug the StoreJet
®
18 into an available USB port on a Windows
®
2000/XP computer.
4. Unplug all other USB storage devices from your computer. This is to prevent
accidental format of a different USB drive.
5. In the StoreJet
®
Format Utility window, click the “Refresh” button.
6. The program will automatically detect the StoreJet
®
18 drive.
Figure 8: The Utility will automatically detect the StoreJet
®
18 drive
7. Press “Start”.