LaCie SAFE User Manual
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LaCie rugged SAFE • Design by neil Poulton Formatting Your Hard DriveUser Manual page 346.2. Formatting Your LaCie RuggedSafe6.2.1. Windows XP UsersThe steps listed below will help you format and partition your diskdrive using Windows XP. Please see 6.2.2. Windows Vista and Win-dows 7 Users or 6.2.3. Mac Users for instructions on formattingusing alternative operating systems. For more information on theoptimal file format, go to 6. Formatting Your LaCie Rugged Safe.CAUTION: Following these steps will erase everything from thehard drive. Please back up all data that you want to preserve beforeformatting your drive.1. Connect the drive to the computer via the interface port.2. Right-click My Computer and select Manage.3. From the “Computer Management” window, select Disk Man-agement (located below the Storage group).4. If the “Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard” window appears,click Cancel.5. Windows will list the hard drives that are installed on the system.Locate your LaCie hard disk drive (Fig. 45). If there is a red circlewith a white line, you must initialize the disk. Right-click the iconto select Initialize.6. In the rectangular box to the right that says “Unallocated” orlists partitions from a previous format, right-click and selectNew Partition…7. On the first page of the New Partition Wizard, click Next (Fig.46).8. Select the Primary or Extended option (Fig. 47) and click Nextcontinued on the next page >>Fig. 45Fig. 46Fig. 47 |
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