LaCie Desktop User Manual - page 15
LaCie Desktop Hard Disk
Formatting and Partitioning
User Manual
page 15
3.3. Formatting for Mac Users
CAUTION:
Following these steps will erase everything from the
Hard Disk. If you have information that you want to protect or con-
tinue 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 (
Fig. 10
). Select the volume
labeled LaCie Desktop Hard Disk from the list of available
hard disks on the left side of the window.
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 10.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 (Mac OS Extended,
Mac OS Standard, UNIX File System, or MS-DOS).
IMPORTANT INFO:
Please refer to section
3. Optional Format-
ting and Partitioning
, for a more detailed comparison of the various
file system formats.
IMPORTANT INFO:
Apple recommends that unless you have a
specific reason to use the UNIX File System (UFS), you should use
the Mac OS Extended format because it provides a more familiar
experience to Macintosh users.
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. 10