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LaCie Mobile Drive User’s Guide 04/17/2003 v.2
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4. Formatting and Partitioning Your LaCie Mobile Drive
Once you have set-up your LaCie Mobile Drive, you can reformat or partition it to suit your
needs.
Important Note :
The LaCie Mobile Drive is pre-formatted for the PC in FAT 32.
If you plan on sharing the hard drive between a Mac and a PC, you will need to
leave the drive formatted for a PC. This will allow the drive to be mounted on either
platform and data shared between the two.
4.1 PC Users
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Windows 98 SE and Me – There are two options: Install and use LaCie Silverlining 98
(which is available at the LaCie Web site:
www.lacie.com ) or other disc utility software
program; or use the native disc utilities program provided by Windows.
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Windows 2000 and XP – Use the Disk Management Utility , which is native to the
operating system.
4.1.1 Formatting and Partitioning Using Windows 2000 and Windows XP
The process of formatting and partitioning a drive on a computer running Windows 2000 or
Windows XP consists of two steps: (1) installing a signature on the drive, and (2)
partitioning/formatting the drive. These steps will erase anything that is on the disk.
1) Connect the drive to the computer via the USB or FireWire port.
2) Right-click My Computer and click Manage .
3) From the Computer Management window, select Disk Management (located below the
Storage group).
4) If this is the first time the drive is being formatted, Windows 2000 will launch the Write
Signature Wizard ( Write Initialize Wizard in Windows XP). Click Next .
5) Windows will list the new drive(s) attached. If you are formatting a single drive, only one
drive should be visible. Select the checkbox next to the drive and click
Next .
6) Click Finish to exit the Wizard.
7) Now, with the disk management window open, a new drive will be visible. Right-click on
the available space and select
Create Partition...
8) This will bring up the Create Partition Wizard . Click Next .
9) Select Primary Partition . Click Next .
10). Here you must specify partition size. It is recommended that you leave the partition set to
the maximum available size, unless you want multiple partitions on the same drive. Click
Next .
11) Select Assign drive letter and select the desired letter for the drive. Click Next .
12) Select Format this partition… and then select a file system: