User’s Manual

Appendix

WARNING – PARTITONING AND FORMATTING YOUR DRIVE WILL PERMANENTLY ERASE ALL THE FILES ON THE DRIVE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS UNLESS ALL OF YOUR FILES HAVE BEEN BACKED UP AND CHECKED FOR RELIABILITY AND READABILITY.

Partitioning and Changing File System Type

It’s possible to partition your STORY Station Series External Hard Drive and change the file system type.

Reformat to FAT32

Reformat to NTFS

Reformat in Macintosh

Reformat to FAT32

-Use Samsung Format Utility to format your STORY Station Series External Hard Drive to FAT32.

(Samsung Format Utility is a Windows application and is available for downloaded from Samsung’s online Customer Support page.)

Figure 34. FAT format utility page

The Samsung Format Utility does not support the eSATA interface. Use the USB connection.

STORY Station Series External Hard Drive

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