Seagate ST3500601XS-RK - 500 GB External Hard Drive, Быстрый старт

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9. The Authentication window displays. Type your
user name and password in the fields provided
and click
OK .
10. A note appears asking you to restart your computer
after installation. Click Restart . Once the computer
restarts, attach the data cable from your external
SATA drive to one of the available eSATA ports on
the PCI card. Turn on the drive: an icon representing
the SATA drive will appear on the Mac OS X desktop.
Format (initialise) for Macintosh OS
Your new Seagate external hard drive is factory
formatted with a FAT32 file format. Although your
Macintosh operating system may recognise and
mount your new drive with this format, FAT32 is
not recommended for use with a Macintosh OS.
You must format your drive using one of the
Mac OS format types before you use it with
your Macintosh operating system.
Reformatting
takes only a few seconds using Apple’s Disk Utility,
which comes with your Mac OS.
Caution: Formatting destroys all data on the drive.
If you have data that you want to keep, back up
the data before formatting the drive. Seagate is not
responsible for lost data.
How to reformat and/or partition your drive
1. Open Disk Utility , which is located in
Applications/Utilities.
2. Select the disc that you want to reformat and/or
partition in the left column. Be sure to select
the new drive, and not an existing drive that
may contain data, because reformatting and/or
partitioning erases all data on the selected drive.
3. Click Partition if you want to partition your drive,
or click Erase to reformat the drive as one volume.
Partitioning is not required; if you select Partition,
continue to the next step. For Erase, you need do
no more.
4. Choose the number of partitions from the Volume
Scheme pop-up menu. Click each partition and enter
a name, select a format, and enter a size for each
partition. (You can also drag the partitions to change
the size.) Select the Mac OS Extended format for
each partition unless you have a specific need to
select any other available Volume Format option.
5. Click Partition , and then click Partition again. Your
drive appears on your desktop with the volume
label(s) you entered in the steps above. If you elected
to partition the drive to create two or more volumes,
each volume will have a drive icon and label.
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What is partitioning?
Partitioning divides
the disc into separate
volumes. It does not
increase the capacity
of the drive. Creating
more than one partition
can be helpful in
organising your infor-
mation. For example,
you might use one
volume (partition) to
store your backups
and one volume for
applications or other
information. Each
volume receives its
own volume icon, so
each volume appears
to be a separate
disc drive on your
Macintosh desktop.
Partitioning is not
required if you use
the Apple-provided
Disk Utility to create
a Mac OS Extended
format volume..