When the drive is first installed, you must mount
it with read/write access so that it can be formatted, so choose the ???Yes, I want to
mount this NDAS device as Read/Write Mode??? radio button and click Next.
Figure 5-5
Enter the unique
numbers for your
specific disk drive
chassis to make it
available to your
computer.
Figure 5-6
Select the Read/Write
drive-mounting option
so you can format your
new disk.
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After you click the Next button, the software will attempt to mount the drive and
if successful displays the final step of the registration wizard, as shown in Figure 5-7.
Notice the text near the bottom of this dialog box and the Click Here to Save as a File
link. This is a feature that allows you to save this drive??™s registration information for
quicker registration on other computers. Click the link to open the Save As dialog
box, shown in Figure 5-8, and save this file to your local disk, a removable disk, or a
USB memory stick so that you can e-mail it or copy the file to your other computers??”
PCs or Macs.
Step 3: Format Your New Drive
Formatting your new drive can be done with the Disk Management application under
Windows XP or Vista. Click Start, right-click the My Computer icon, and select
Manage. In the Computer Management window, select Disk Management.
Scroll through the list of drives in the lower-right pane until you locate an entry
that shows an Unallocated disk.
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