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LaCinema Mini HD Reformatting the LaCinema Mini HD

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9.2. Reformatting: Mac Users

TECHNICAL NOTE: The LaCinema Mini HD is formatted in NTFS

for immediate use with Windows. Mac users must reformat the drive

into Mac OS Extended (NOT journaled).

IMPORTANT INFO: You can alternatively choose to format the

LaCinema Mini HD in MS-DOS (FAT32), which is compatible with

almost all computers, keep in mind that you will not be able to trans-

fer ﬁles larger than 4GB to the LaCinema Mini HD.

CAUTION: Following these steps will erase everything from the

LaCinema Mini HD. If you have information that you want to protect

or continue to use, back up this information before performing these

steps.

1. Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive.

2. Select Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder menu bar.

3. In the Utilities folder, double-click Disk Utility.

4. The Disk Utility window will open. Select the volume labeled

LaCie Hard Disk from the list of available hard disks on the left

side of the window.

5. Select the Partition tab.

6. From the Volume Scheme: menu, choose the number of parti-

tions you want to divide the drive into (Mac OS 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.

7. In the Volume Information section, enter a name for each vol-

ume (partition), and choose a ﬁle system (Mac OS Extended or

MS-DOS) from the drop-down menu (Fig. 110).

8. Once you have ﬁnalized the volume options, click Partition.

Click Partition again when the alert message appears to con-

tinue.

9. Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk according to

your settings, and your drive will be ready to use.

Fig. 109

Fig. 110