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Using Your LaCie Drive
3.1 Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie mini
3.1.1. Mac Users
The LaCie mini is pre-formatted in HFS+ for immediate use on Apple computers so you do not need to reformat it. If you
want to reformat it, see below.
• Mac OS 9.x – Install and use
LaCie Silverlining Pro
, which is included with your drive.
• Mac OS 10.x – Use the
Apple Disk Utility
application, which is native to the operating system.
For instructions on installing and using Silverlining Pro, please refer to the Silverlining manual, located on your LaCie Stor-
age Utilities CD, in PDF format.
Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10.x
WARNING:
Following these steps
will erase anything that is on the hard
drive. Therefore, if you have informa-
tion that you want to protect or con-
tinue to use, backup this information
before performing these steps.
1) Connect the drive to the computer via the
USB 2.0 and/or FireWire port.
2) Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go
to the
Menu Bar
, and open
Go
.
3) From the
Go
menu, click on
Applica-
tions
.
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 reads
LaCie
.
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