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formatting external lacie 500 gb
Name: TONY Date: October 23, 2004 at 21:56:16 Pacific OS: windows me CPU/Ram: athlon 526
Comment:
just purchased an external hard drive lacie 500gb. i need to format it. there is no software with it. the manual is contained in a cd rom but cannot open it. can you tell me how i format it. i operate Windows ME thanks
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 23, 2004 at 23:27:57 Pacific
Reply:
Why can you not open the manual?
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Response Number 2
Name: JackG Date: October 24, 2004 at 01:01:37 Pacific
Reply:
To use it with Windows ME you have to use a partitioning program like FDISK to break the drive into several partitions first. Windows ME does not work correctly with partitions larger that 137GB in size. ScanDisk and Defrag for example will corrupt the partition information if they are larger than 137GB.
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Response Number 3
Name: Trev Date: October 29, 2004 at 13:27:02 Pacific
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