[HDD] How to Format an HDD of more than 16 TB
How to format an HDD in NTFS (Windows procedure)
1. Connect your hard drive dock to a USB 3.0 port on your computer.
2. On the desktop of your computer, right-click the "This PC" icon and then click the "Manage" option.
3. In the Computer Management window, click "Disk Management".
4. Right click on the disk you want to format then click the "Add a simple Volume" option.
5. Windows will propose you to create a volume with all the storage, but that is not what we want.
6. Replace the value in "Simple volume size in MB" by a smaller one (ideally around half the size of your HDD).
7. Then click on the following button several times until you reach the following screen:
Before you click Next, select the following options:
- File System: NTFS.
- Size of Allocation Unit: 64 KB.
- Enter a hard disk name in "Volume Name" .
- Select the Perform one Format.Then click on next.
8. Wait until the end of the procedure, then make sure that your hard disk is formatted correctly in NTFS.
Before you click Next, select the following options:
- File System: NTFS.
- Size of Allocation Unit: 64 KB.
- Enter a hard disk name in "Volume Name" .
- Select the Perform one Format.Then click on next.
8. Wait until the end of the procedure, then make sure that your hard disk is formatted correctly in NTFS.
9. Then finally start the same process from part 4. by right clicking on the other part of the drive that is Unallocated.
10. Your hard drive is now ready to use. Remove the hard drive from the docking station and insert it into your Zappiti Player.
If it is an external hard drive, connect it with USB to your Zappiti player.
You can find the full procedure on how to format a HDD on PC by using this link: