LaCie Mobile Drive User’s Guide 04/17/2003 v.2
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3. Setting Up Your LaCie Mobile Drive
3.1 Power Supply
The LaCie Mobile Drive was designed to derive its power from the USB 2.0 bus. To
power on your Mobile Drive, connect the USB 2.0 cable from the back of the Mobile
Drive to an available USB 2.0 port on your computer.
Technical Information:
Windows Users:
In the event that the
USB bus on your computer does not
provide the necessary power to operate
your drive, there is a PS-2 power supply
adapter cable that is included with your
drive that will derive the necessary power
to operate the drive. The power supply
adapter cable connects to either of the
ports used to connect a keyboard or
mouse to your computer.
3.2 Installing Your Hard Drive
3.2.1 PC Users
Windows 2000 and XP
You will not need to install any drivers or additional software. Simply connect the
USB cable from your LaCie Mobile Drive to an available USB port on your computer,
and Windows XP or Windows 2000 will automatically assign it a drive letter and the
drive will be available in My Computer. You can use the formatting and partitioning
capabilities of the
Disk Management Utility
to configure your hard drive if you wish.
Please refer to section
4.1.1 Formatting and Partitioning Using Windows 2000 and
Windows XP
for more information.
Windows 98 SE and Windows Me
To use your new LaCie Mobile Drive, first install the necessary driver software. The
drivers are located on the same CD-ROM as the manual. Click on the driver installer
icon and follow the prompts to install the drivers.
Once the drivers are installed, follow these steps to use your drive:
1) Connect the USB cable from your LaCie Mobile Drive to an available USB port on
your computer.
2) On the Windows desktop, open
My Computer
. Windows will have assigned a
drive letter and icon for your drive.
3) Once your drive appears in
My Computer
or
Windows Explorer
, you can then
use it in the same way that you use your computer’s internal hard drive.