User guide

Any characters in the Volume Label string that are not in the

display’s supported character set will be displayed as *.

About the Hard Drive

The hard drive comes pre-formatted in FAT32 format. This format

allows for operation with either Windows or Mac OS.

If you want to format to NTFS please consult your Windows

documentation and select an allocation unit size of 64K when

formatting. Because calculating the amount of free space for large

NTFS formatted drives can take considerable time (up to 3 minutes

in some instances), there are special considerations for using the

InSight display feature under NTFS:

 • Uponconnectingthedrive,thedisplaywillshow“scanning…”

and the blue LED will ﬂash while the drive is busy calculating

the remaining free space. This process must complete fully

before the display will refresh and the drive will show up in

My Computer.

 • Uponsaferemoval,Windowsmaydisplaythemessage

indicating it is now safe to disconnect the drive, even while the

drive itself is still busy calculating remaining free space. While

the drive is still busy calculating, the display will show

  “scanning…”andtheblueLEDwillash.Pleasewaitforthe

ﬂashing to cease and for the display to refresh.

 • ThedisplayfeatureisnotsupportedunderNTFSwithpartition

  type“GUIDPartitionTable(GPT)”.

 • Longercalculationtimeisrequiredforlargerdrivecapacities.

 • Shortercalculationtimeisrequiredwhenusinglargerallocation

unit sizes. For this reason we recommend selecting an

allocation unit size of 64K when formatting to NTFS with this

product.

If you plan to use your hard drive only with computers running Mac

OS, you may reformat to HFS+. Consult your Mac OS documentation

for how to format to HFS+. Please note these special considerations

when using the display feature under HFS+

 • Partitiontype“MasterBootRecord”issupportedforallHFS+