Formatting and Partitioning
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LaCie Big Disk
4. Formatting and Partitioning Your LaCie Big Disk
Once you have set-up your LaCie Big Disk, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs.
4.1 Mac Users
• Mac OS 8.6 and 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 Storage
Utilities CD, in PDF format.
For instructions on using the Mac OS 10.x
Apple Disk Utility
application, please refer to the section below.
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 information
that you want to protect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps.
1) Connect the drive to the computer via the FireWire or USB port.
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 reads
LaCie
.
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
(Mac OS 10.x gives you the option of dividing the drive into at most 8 partitions). You
can customize the size of the partitions by using the slide bar between the partitions in the
Volume Scheme
: area.
8) In the
Volume Information
section, create a name for each partition, choose the volume format (Mac OS Extended, Mac
OS Standard or UNIX File System) and the volume size.
