Western Digital WD5000H1U-00 User Manual - Page 4

MY BOOK HOME EDITION USER MANUAL 2 About Your WD Drive Drive Format This WD device is preformatted as a single FAT32 partition for compatibility with all updated Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The FAT32 file system has a maximum individual file size of 4 GB. This WD device cannot create partitions larger than 32 GB in Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Reformatting the Drive-Windows Windows 2000 and XP users can overcome these file size limitations by reformatting the drive to NTFS using the Disk Management utility. See answer ID 1287 at support.wdc.com and article IDs 314463 and 184006 at support.microsoft.com for further details. Reformatting the Drive-Mac For instructions on repartitioning and reformatting the drive to HFS+ (Journaled) prior to installation, see knowledge base answer ID 287 at support.wdc.com. For instructions on repartitioning and reformatting the drive to NTFS prior to installation, see knowledge base answer ID 207 at support.wdc.com. Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents including the preloaded software. If you have already saved files on My Book, be sure to back them up before reformatting. See "Copy Application Software" on page 4. LED Indicators The power/activity LED is located on the center, front panel of the device. The LED indicators function as follows. Power/Activity LED Appearance Steady Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds) Slow flashing (every 5 seconds) Up and down Description Power-on state or power-save mode Transitioning to system standby System standby Drive in use Capacity Gauge USB and FireWire Mode The Capacity Gauge is enabled only through installation of its driver, which must be installed on each system to which My Book is connected. For Windows, the autorun menu appears only on the first installation of the device when utilities are installed automatically. If autorun is disabled on your computer or if you are connecting My Book to another computer, you must install utilities manually. Go to Start, My Computer, and double-click Setup.exe. For Mac, you must install WD Drive Manager. See "Connecting the Device" on page 5 for more info. The Capacity Gauge is updated automatically upon drive usage. In Windows, you can manually update the Capacity Gauge by right-clicking the WD Drive Manager icon in the system tray then click outside the pop-up menu to close it. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 3