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User’s Manual
Appendix
WARNING – PARTITIONING 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 G2 Portable External Hard Drive and change the file system type.
Reformat to FAT32
Reformat to NTFS
Reformat in Macintosh
Reformat to FAT32
-Use Samsung USB Format Utility to format your G2 Portable External Hard Drive to FAT32.
(Samsung USB Format Utility is a Windows application and is available for downloaded from Samsung’s online Customer Support page.)
Figure 32. FAT format utility
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