User manual

LaCie Hard Disk • DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON
User Manual
Formatting and Partitioning
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3.2. Formatting for Mac Users
Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the
drive.
Select Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder
menu bar.
In the Utilities folder, double-click Disk Utility.
e Disk Utility window will open. Select the vol-
ume labeled LaCie Hard Disk from the list of avail-
able hard disks on the left side of the window.
Select the Partition tab.
From the Volume Scheme: menu, choose the num-
ber of partitions you want to divide the drive into
(Mac OS 10.x gives you the option of dividing the
drive into at most 16 partitions). You can adjust the
size of each partition using the slide bar between the
partitions in the Volume Scheme: area.
In the Volume Information section, enter a name
for each volume (partition), choose the volume for-
mat (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard, UNIX
File System, or MS-DOS).
Once you have finalized the volume options, click
Partition. Click Partition again when the alert mes-
sage appears to continue.
Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk
according to your settings, and your drive will be
ready to use.
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Fig. 3.2.
ImpOrTANT INfO: Please refer to section 3,
Formatting and Partitioning, for a more detailed
comparison of the various file system formats.
CAUTION: Following these steps will erase ev-
erything from the hard disk. If you have informa-
tion that you want to protect or continue to use,
back up this information before performing these
steps.
ImpOrTANT INfO: Apple recommends that
unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX
File System (UFS), you should use the Mac OS
Extended format because it provides a more famil-
iar experience to Macintosh users.