Formatting & Partitioning
User Manual
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3.2. Mac Users
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase everything from the
your hard drive. If you have information that you want to protect or
continue to use, back up this information before performing these
steps.
1. Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive.
2. Select
Utilities
from the Go menu in the Finder menu bar.
3. In the Utilities folder, double-click
Disk Utility
.
4. The Disk Utility window will open. Select the volume labeled
LaCie hard disk
from the list of available hard disks on the left
side of the window (
Fig. 09
).
5. Select the
Partition
tab.
6. From the
Volume Scheme:
menu, choose the number of parti-
tions you want to divide the drive into (Mac OS X gives you the
option of dividing the drive into at most 16 partitions). You can
adjust the size of each partition using the slide bar between the
partitions in the
Volume Scheme:
area.
7. In the Volume Information section, enter a name for each vol-
ume (partition), choose the volume format.
8. Once you have finalized the volume options, click
Partition
.
Click
Partition
again when the alert message appears to con-
tinue.
9. Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk according to
your settings, and your drive will be ready to use.
Fig. 09
