3. Installing Your LaCie Drive
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LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface
User’s Manual
Windows 2000 And Windows XP – FireWire 400
After the first connection of a FireWire-based peripheral, Windows detects the drive, and will install it automatically as a new
peripheral, even if you have previously installed it on another port on the same FireWire bus. Let Windows install the
FireWire drivers of your LaCie drive.
Connect the 6-pin end of the FireWire 400 cable into the
FireWire 400 port on the back of the LaCie Big Disk
Extreme with Triple Interface.
Connect the 6-pin end of the
FireWire 400 cable into an
available FireWire 400 port
on your computer.
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Computer models vary. Please consult your computer’s User’s Manual for the exact location of your interface.
Tech Note:
For more information about
FireWire, please see sections:
•
2.3.1. FireWire
•
5.3. Optimizing Data Transfers
•
6. FireWire Questions & Answers
.
After following the steps in
3.1. Connecting The Power Supply
, power on the drive by pressing the On/Off button
on the front of the drive.
Your LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface
will now be ready for use. Now you will need to
format and partition the drive to suit your needs.
Please see
4.1. Formatting And Partitioning Your
LaCie Drive – 4.1.2. Windows Users
for more
information.
