
External 3.5” SATA Enclosure User Manual
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Mac OS does not recognize NTFS formatted drives, to use your device on both platforms, we recommend you to
use FAT32.
If you use Win2000,WinXP or WinVISTA and FAT32, the biggest single partition you can create will be 32GB. To
create larger partitions, you need to use the DOS command under Win98SE or WinME or change to NTFS format.
If you can not see the drive, make sure the drivers are installed properly and the power is turned on!
Mac OS:
Mac OS9.2 and earlier, does not support creating partitions on an external drive. To do that, you would need to purchase
additional 3
rd
party software, connect the drive to the internal SATA connection or upgrade to OS X. Initializing the drive
can be done on all Operating Systems.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk Utility to format and create partitions on your external disk.
• Select “Disk Utility” in the utilities folder
• Choose your external drive and format it according to your requirement
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