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Formatting Hard Drives in External Enclosures

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Overview This paper shows different ways how to format and setup the hard drive (create a partition), if installed in an external enclosure connected through USB or Firewire. Explanations are separated by Operating System, first PC (Microsoft Windows), then Mac OS. Mac OS extended can only be used with Macintosh Operating Systems. If one plans on transferring data across different platforms to a PC, this paper recommends to format the drive on a PC using FAT32.

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Publisher	Macpower & Tytech Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mac OS, Hard Drives

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