Support - CalDigit Online Troubleshooting Knowledge Base
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First Published: 1/27/2009 Last Modified: 1/27/2009 Last Modified by: FL
Article ID:20
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Products Affected:
HDPro & HDPro2, HDOne, CalDigit RAID Card, HDElement, CalDigit VR & mini, FireWire VR, S2VR HD, S2VR Duo
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To partition a drive in Windows, please follow these steps:
1. Make sure the drive's on and connected with your host machine.
2. Open the Disk Management. (Location: My Computer > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management), then locate the new drive.
![](https://archive.caldigit.com/img/WinFormat1.jpg)
3. Initialize and Partition the new drive.
![](https://archive.caldigit.com/img/WinFormat2.jpg)
4. Choose specific settings for your new drive. Recommended: Primary partition > Maximum Partition size in MB > Default drive letter assign > Perform a quick format enable.
![](https://archive.caldigit.com/img/WinFormat3.jpg)
5. Verify the new drive in My Computer.
![](https://archive.caldigit.com/img/WinFormat4.jpg)
(If you are a 2TB or larger disk on a 32bit OS, please check the following link)
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Keywords : Windows, format, partition, erase, new drive, control panel
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