LaCie LaCinema Rugged
Reformatting the LaCinema Rugged
User Manual
page 31
Mac Users
6.2.
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase everything from
the LaCinema Rugged. If you have information that you want
to protect or continue to use, back up this information before
performing these steps.
ImpOrTANT INfO:
The drive should not be reformatted to
a file system other than FAT32 or NTFS. If the drive is format-
ted in a different format (such as HFS+), files will NOT appear
on your television screen. For details, see
1.4. Views of the
LaCinema Rugged
.
Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive.
1.
Select
2.
Utilities
from the
Go
menu in the Finder menu bar.
In the Utilities folder, double-click
3.
Disk Utility
.
The Disk Utility window will open. Select the volume labeled
4.
LaCie Hard Disk
from the list of available hard disks on the
left side of the window.
Select the
5.
Partition
tab.
From the
6.
Volume Scheme:
menu, choose the number of
partitions you want to divide the drive into (Mac OS X gives
you the option of dividing the drive into at most 16 parti-
tions). You can adjust the size of each partition using the
slide bar between the partitions in the
Volume Scheme:
area.
In the
7.
Volume Information
section, enter a name for each
volume (partition), choose the volume format.
Once you have finalized the volume options, click
8.
Parti-
tion
. Click
Partition
again when the alert message appears
to continue.
Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk according
9.
to your settings, and your drive will be ready to use.
Fig. 6.2
