LaCie grand Hard Disk Formatting & PartitioningUser Manual page 163.2. Mac UsersCAUTION: Following these steps will erase everything from theyour hard drive. If you have information that you want to protect orcontinue to use, back up this information before performing thesesteps.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. Select the volume labeledLaCie hard disk from the list of available hard disks on the leftside of the window (Fig. 12).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 X gives you theoption of dividing the drive into at most 16 partitions). You canadjust the size of each partition using the slide bar between thepartitions in the Volume Scheme: area.7. In the Volume Information section, enter a name for each vol-ume (partition), choose the volume format.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 toyour settings, and your drive will be ready to use.Fig. 12