LaCie d2 USB 3.0
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Getting Connected
User Manual
page 21
2.5.3. Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users
The following steps explain how to format your LaCie hard disk using
Windows Vista or Windows 7.
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase everything from the d2
hard drive. 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
Computer
and choose
Manage
. From the Manage
window select
Disk Management
.
2. From the list of drives in the middle of the Disk Management
window, right-click your LaCie hard drive and select
New Sim-
ple Volume...
(
Fig. 18
).
3. The
New Simple Volume Wizard
will appear. To continue
choose
Next>
(
Fig. 19
).
4. This wizard allows you to create volumes, also known as parti-
tions. You can choose to create a single partition or many. Type
the size of the partition you want to create in megabytes (MB).
For example, a 100GB (gigabyte) partition is 100000MB. If you
want to create a FAT32 partition, the size cannot exceed 32GB
(32000MB) (
Fig. 20
). Once you have chosen a partition size,
select
Next>
.
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Fig. 18
Fig. 19
Fig. 20
