User manual

LaCie Hard Disk • DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON
User Manual
Getting Connected
Page 11
Before using your drive, LaCie Setup Assistant soft-
ware must be launched to format your drive. It will:
Optimize your drive according to your needs
Copy the manual and utilities on your drive
It is highly advised to copy the user manual and
utilities onto your computer’s internal hard drive or
other medium.
To launch LaCie Setup Assistant:
Windows users: double click on the LaCie drive
icon in “My Computer”.
Mac users: double click on the “LaCie Setup Assis-
tant” icon which will appear on your desktop.
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2.3. Launching LaCie Setup Assistant
ImpOrTANT INfO: If you do not launch
LaCie Setup Assistant or if you quit LaCie Setup
Assistant after the formatting has begun, your
drive will not be ready to use and will require
manual formatting. e user manual and utili-
ties will not be available on your drive and will
have to be downloaded from the LaCie website:
www.lacie.com
TeChNICAl NOTe: e LaCie Setup As-
sistant does not prevent you from using your
computer’s native disk utility program to format
or partition your LaCie drive. Simply follow the
Setup Assistant through completion, then use your
computer’s native disk utility (Disk Management
for Windows or Disk Utility for Mac) to reformat
your drive. See section 3, Optional Formatting and
Partitioning for more information.