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6. Detecting The Drive or Creating A New Partition: Note: If it does not automatically detect, you may need to initialize or format the hard drive. This can be done through 'Disk Management' or 'Disk Utility.' Please refer to your hard drive manual form further instructions on how to initialize or format a hard drive. Windows: 1. Right click on "My Computer" and choose Manage. 2. Under "Storage" on the LEFT pane, select Disk Management 3. Windows should now give you the option to initialize the disk. Continue through the wizard leaving the values at their defaults. If the wizard does not appear, locate the new drive in the lower right pane, right click on the new disk (where it reads "Disk #") and choose Initialize. (This step will only be required if a red error symbol is displayed.) 4. Locate your hard drive in the bottom right pane. Right click on the area with a status bar (to the right of the "Disk #" area) and choose New Partition. 5. Follow the directions of the wizard. The recommended partition type is "primary" and the recommended file system is "NTFS." Please note that Windows XP/2000 limits FAT32 partitions to only 32GB. Also, Windows 98 is not capable of reading the NTFS file system. 6. Once complete, you should now be able to see the drive in Windows Explorer. 9

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6. Detecting The Drive or Creating A New Partition:
Windows:
Note: If it does not automatically detect, you may need to initialize or format
the hard drive. This can be done through ‘Disk Management’ or ‘Disk Utility.’
Please refer to your hard drive manual form further instructions on how to
initialize or format a hard drive.
1. Right click on "My Computer" and choose Manage.
2. Under “Storage” on the LEFT pane, select Disk Management
3. Windows should now give you the option to initialize the disk.
Continue through the wizard leaving the values at their defaults. If
the wizard does not appear, locate the new drive in the lower right
pane, right click on the new disk (where it reads "Disk #") and
choose Initialize. (This step will only be required if a red error
symbol is displayed.)
4. Locate your hard drive in the bottom right pane. Right click on the
area with a status bar (to the right of the “Disk #” area) and choose
New Partition.
5. Follow the directions of the wizard. The recommended partition
type is “primary” and the recommended file system is “NTFS.” Please
note that Windows XP/2000 limits FAT32 partitions to only 32GB.
Also, Windows 98 is not capable of reading the NTFS file system.
6. Once complete, you should now be able to see the drive in
Windows Explorer.