Samsung Format Utility

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Using the Samsung Format Utility

This program is designed to format your Samsung External Hard Drive only. It is critically important that you read and understand the results of formatting your drive.

NOTE: 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.

This manual describes the features, uses, and instructions to format a Samsung External Hard Drive and is designed for the advanced computer user.

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Product Features

Supports: • Only Samsung External Hard Drive • Windows XP / Vista / 7 • NTFS and FAT32 more than 32GB • Disk label setting • Partition the HDD into a single partition with an optional quick format

Does not support: • Partition size adjustment

Files Included in this Program • Samsung Format Utility Vx.x.exe

• The Samsung USB Format Utility is a Windows application and is available for downloaded from Samsung's online Customer Support page.

(Homepage : www.samsunghdd.com)

Partitioning and Changing File System Type The Samsung External Hard Drive can be formatted to three different filing systems:

• FAT32 • NTFS • Macintosh

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Reformat to FAT32

Use Samsung USB Format Utility to format your Samsung External Hard Drive to FAT32.

1. Launch Samsung Format Utility Vx.x.exe 2. After you have read the warning message, click OK

Figure 1-1 Format Warning Screen

NOTE: 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.

3. From the Drive To Format Pull-Down menu, choose Whole Hard Drive to format the drive as one partition or, if there is another partition, choose the desired partition

4. From the File System Pull-Down menu, choose the File System (NTFS or FAT32)

5. Click the Quick Format box to use the Quick Format option. A check mark indicates that the option is chosen

6. Enter the Volume Label if applicable

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7. Click Start Figure 1-2 Samsung Format Utility Screen

8. From the Warning screen, click OK

Figure 1-3 Warning before Formatting

The Lower Left window of the Samsung Format Utility changed from Enumerate Device Success to Running. This will change back to Enumerate Device Success when the process has completed. After the process has completed, you will receive a message from Task Bar indicating OK if the process was successful or Fail if the process failed.

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Figure 1-4 Format Utility Running

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Reformat to NTFS

Now that your Samsung External Hard Drive has been formatted, the drive can now be reformatted with the NTFS.

1. Connect the Samsung External Hard Drive to your computer 2. From the Windows Explorer, right-click MyComputer -> Manage

Figure 1-5 Manage option in Windows Explorer

NOTE: 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.

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3. From the Computer Management screen, choose Disk Management 4. Right-click the your Samsung External Hard Drive -> click Delete

Partition

Figure 1-6 Partitioning your Samsung External Hard Drive

5. IF YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU ARE REMOVING THE CORRECT PARTITION, click Yes

Figure 1-7 Delete Partition Warning

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6. Once the drive partition has been deleted, right-click the drive to format -> New Partition

Figure 1-8 New Partition

7. From the New Partition Wizard, click Next

Figure 1-9 Partition Wizard

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8. From the Select Partition Type screen, click Primary Partition -> Next

Figure 1-10 Choose the Partition Type

9. Enter the size of the partition -> Next

Figure 1-11 Enter a Partition Size

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10. From the Assign Drive Letter or Path, click Assign the following drive letter: -> choose the Drive Letter Designation -> Next

Figure 1-12 Choose the Drive Designation Letter

11. From the Format Partition screen, click Format this partition with the following settings:

12. In the box to the right of File System: choose NTFS -> Next

Figure 1-13 Choose NTFS

The last screen is the Completing the New Partition Wizard to indicate that the partition was successfully completed.

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13. Click Finish

Figure 1-14 Successful Partition Creation screen

Your drive is now partitioned with NTSF.

Figure 1-15 NTFS Partitioned Drive in the Management screen

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Reformat in Macintosh

Following are the instructions for formatting a computer running the Macintosh OS X:

1. Launch Mac Os X’s Disk Utility tool 2. Open the main drive folder from the desktop

3. Open Applications -> Utilities folder

4. Select the Disk Utility file 5. Select the drive you wish to reformat 6. Select the Erase menu 7. Select Mac OS Externded(Journaled) from the volume format menu

and Click Erase button 8. Once formatting is complete, the drive will appear on your desktop.

NOTE: 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.

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