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4. Using Your LaCie Drive
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LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits
User’s Manual
4.1. Formatting Your LaCie Hard Drive – Mac Users
Caution!
Following these steps will erase anything that is on the hard drive. Therefore, if you have information
that you want to protect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps.
Once you have set-up your LaCie Hard Drive, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs.
Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10.x Disc Utility
1) Connect the drive to the computer via one of the interface ports.
2) Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the
Menu Bar
, and open
Go
.
3) From the
Go
menu, click on
Applications
.
4) In the
Applications
menu, open
the
Utilities
folder, and then double-
click
Disc Utility
from the
Utilities
folder.
5) The
Disc Utility
window will
open. In the left side of the window
will be a list of the available hard
disk drives. You should see a
volume that represents your internal
hard drive, and one that represents
your LaCie drive.
6) Select the LaCie drive, and then
click on the
Partition
tab.
7) From the
Volume Scheme:
button, choose the number of
partitions you want to divide the
drive into by clicking on the pull
down menu starting with
Current
.
You can customize the size of the
partitions by using the slide bar
between the partitions in the
Volume Scheme:
area.