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The divided partition of the external HDD
Windows 98SE/ME SYSTEM
FDISK is command that doing the divided partition to HDD, The step
of how to divided partition from the HDD by using FDISK as follows:
1. Plug the cable of USB into PC, and be sure that the PC has
identified HDD.
2. Execute "FDISK" under the model of COMMAND.
3. After enter the FDISK program [If the FDISK program does not
work, please restart your PC again (don't plug out the USB
HDD) then it will be work]. Firstly select "The fifth item" --select the
USB HDD you want to divided partition for, then just see
the illustration as follows: Then just follow the instruction to divided
partition for the HDD of USB.
Windows 2000/XP
Plug the HDD into your system, it will appear the hot plug a play. Just
click “Control Panel”/ “manage tool” / “computer management” / “Disk
management”. All the disk connects to the PC will appear on the chart,
as well as the state of the HDD. Find out the HDD and click the right
bottom of the mouse under the state of chart, just follow the
step. Take a look of the icon on the bottom.
Mac OS
Mac OS9.2 and earlier version does not support creating partition on
an external HDD. For your new HDD, you need to purchase
additional 3rd party software to creating your HDD partition.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk Utility to format and divided partitions
on your external disk.
• Select “Disk Utilities” in the utilities folder.
• Choose your external drive and format it.