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Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, 1.1. Mac Users

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4. Using Your LaCie Drive 4.1. Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface Once you have set-up your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs.The LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface is pre-formatted as a Mac OS Extended volume. 4.1.1. Mac Users • Mac OS 9.x - Install and use LaCie Silverlining Pro, which is included with your drive. • Mac OS 10.x - Use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system. For instructions on installing and using Silverlining Pro, please refer to the Silverlining manual, located on your LaCie Storage Utilities CD, in PDF format. Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10.x 1) Connect the drive to the computer via one of the interface ports. 2) Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the Menu Bar, and open Go. 3) From the Go menu, click on Applications. 4) In the Applications menu, open the Utilities folder, and then double-click Disc Utility from the Utilities folder. 5) The Disc Utility window will open. In the left side of the window will be a list of the available hard disk drives. You should see a volume that represents your internal hard drive, and one that reads LaCie. 6) Select the LaCie drive, and then click on the Partition tab. Warning: Following these steps will erase anything that is on the hard drive. Therefore, if you have information that you want to protect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps. user manual | page 21

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4.1. Formatting And Partitioning Your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface
Once you have set-up your LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface, you can reformat or partition it to suit your needs.The
LaCie Rugged Drive with Triple Interface is pre-formatted as a Mac OS Extended volume.
4.1.1. Mac Users
• Mac OS 9.x – Install and use LaCie
Silverlining Pro
, which is included with your drive.
• Mac OS 10.x – Use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system.
For instructions on installing and using
Silverlining Pro
, please refer to the
Silverlining
manual, located on your LaCie Storage Utilities CD, in PDF format.
Formatting And Partitioning Using Mac OS 10.x
1) Connect the drive to the computer via one of the interface ports.
2) Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the
Menu Bar
, and open
Go
.
3) From the
Go
menu, click on
Applications
.
4) In the
Applications
menu, open the
Utilities
folder, and then double-click
Disc Utility
from the
Utilities
folder.
5) The
Disc Utility
window will open.
In the left side of the window will be a
list of the available hard disk drives.
You should see a volume that
represents your internal hard drive,
and one that reads LaCie.
6) Select the LaCie drive, and then
click on the
Partition
tab.
4. Using Your LaCie Drive
Warning:
Following these
steps will erase anything that is
on the hard drive. Therefore, if
you have information that you
want to protect or continue to
use, backup this information
before performing these steps.