LaCie Rugged Hard Disk - Manual (Page 19)

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Optional Formatting and Partitioning
User Manual page 19
Follow the steps in this section if you used LaCie Setup Assistant
to format your drive for use with a Mac or if you reformatted your
LaCie hard disk as an HFS+ volume on a Mac.
CAUTION: Following these steps will erase everything from
the hard disk. If you have information that you want to protect
or continue to use, back up this information before performing
these steps.
Right-click 1. My Computer and select Manage (Fig.
3.2.2-A). The Computer Management window opens.
Select 2. Disk Management under Storage (you may have
to expand the Storage list to see the Disk Management op-
tion). See Fig. 3.2.2-B. Information about all storage de-
vices connected to your computer appears in the pane on
the right.
Find the disk corresponding to your LaCie hard disk. Right- 3.
click on the “Unallocated” volume in the disk allocation
bar and select New Partition… from the right-click options
menu (Fig. 3.2.2-B). The New Partition Wizard opens.
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Formatting from HFS+ (Apple File System) to NTFS 3.2.2.
Figure 3.2.2-A
Figure 3.2.2-B
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