Using Your LaCie Drive
LaCie mini
COMPANION HARD DRIVE
user manual | page 14
3.1 Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie mini
3.1.1. Mac Users
The LaCie mini is pre-formatted in HFS+ for immediate use on Apple computers so you do not need to reformat it. If you want
to reformat it, see below.
• Mac OS 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.
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 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.
