LaCie Golden Disk USB 2.0 User Manual

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LaCie Golden DiskUser ManualFormatting and PartitioningPage 13.2. Formatting for Mac UsersConnect the drive to the computer and turn on thedrive.Select Utilities from the Go menu in the Findermenu bar.In the Utilities folder, double-click Disk Utility.The Disk Utility window will open. Select the vol-ume labeled LaCie Hard Disk from the list of avail-able hard disks on the left side of the window.Select the Partition tab.From the Volume Scheme: menu, choose the num-ber of partitions you want to divide the drive into(Mac OS 10.x gives you the option of dividing thedrive into at most 16 partitions). You can adjust thesize of each partition using the slide bar between thepartitions in the Volume Scheme: area.In the Volume Information section, enter a namefor each volume (partition), choose the volume for-mat (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard, UNIXFile System, or MS-DOS).Once you have finalized the volume options, clickPartition. Click Partition again when the alert mes-sage appears to continue.Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the diskaccording to your settings, and your drive will beready to use.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.Fig. 3.2.ImpOrTANT INfO: Please refer to section 3,Formatting and Partitioning, for a more detailedcomparison of the various file system formats.CAUTION: Following these steps will eraseeverything from the Hard Disk. If you have in-formation that you want to protect or continue touse, back up this information before performingthese steps.ImpOrTANT INfO: Apple recommends thatunless you have a specific reason to use the UNIXFile System (UFS), you should use the Mac OSExtended format because it provides a more famil-iar experience to Macintosh users.