LaCie Rugged Hard Disk
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esign
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Optional Formatting and Partitioning
User Manual
page 26
3.2. Formatting for Windows Users
Before you start, connect the drive to the computer and follow the
steps in section
3.1
to find the file system format of your LaCie hard
disk.
✦
If your disk is formatted as a FAT32 volume, proceed to sec-
tion
3.2.1. Formatting from FAT32 to NTFS
.
✦
If your disk is formatted as an HFS+ volume (or unrecognized
in Windows) , click here or proceed to section
3.2.2. Format-
ting from HFS+ (Apple File System) to NTFS
.
3.2.1. Formatting from FAT32 to NTFS
Follow these steps if you used LaCie Setup Assistant to create an
exchange volume on your LaCie hard disk for data sharing between
Windows and Mac computers or if you reformatted your LaCie hard
disk as a FAT32 volume on a Mac.
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase everything from the
hard disk. If you have information that you want to protect or con-
tinue to use, back up this information before performing these steps.
1. Right-click
My Computer
and select
Manage
(
Fig. 30
). The
Computer Management window opens.
2. Select
Disk Management
under Storage (you may have to
expand the Storage list to see the Disk Management option).
See
Fig. 31
. Information about all storage devices connected to
your computer appears in the pane on the right.
3. Find the disk corresponding to your LaCie hard disk. Right-click
in the disk allocation bar of the FAT32 volume and select
For-
mat…
from the right-click options menu (
Fig. 31
).
TECHNICAL NOTE:
If you did not create an exchange volume us-
ing LaCie Setup Assistant, there may be only one volume associated
with the disk.
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Fig. 30
Fig. 31
