LaCie SAFE - Manual (Page 29)

LaCie SAFE Hard Drive
User Manual page
Helpful Information
Connect the drive to the computer via the USB
2.0 port and swipe a registered finger over the
sensor to access the data storage area of the La-
Cie SAFE drive.
Once you have access to the drive, go to the
Menu Bar, and open Go.
From the Go menu, click on Applications.
In the Applications menu, open the Utilities
folder, and then double-click Disk Utility from
the Utilities folder.
The Disk 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 la-
beled LaCie SAFE drive.
From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the
number of partitions you want to divide the
drive into by clicking on the pull down menu
starting with Current (Mac OS 10.x gives you
the option of dividing the drive into at most 8
partitions). You can customize the size of the
partitions by using the slide bar between the
partitions in the Volume Scheme: area.
In the Volume Information section, create a
name for each partition, choose the volume for-
mat (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard or
UNIX File System) and the volume size.
Once you have finalized the volume format,
number of partitions, size and options, click
OK. The following message will appear: Warn-
ing! Saving the new volume will erase all ex-
isting volumes. This can NOT be undone. Are
you sure you want to do that? Click Partition
to continue.
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Mac Users n
Mac OS 10.x – Use the Apple Disk Utility ap-
plication, which is native to the operating system.
ImpOrTANT INfO: 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, back-
up this information before performing these
steps.
Formatting Using Mac OS 10.x
Disk management utility (Mac)
ImpOrTANT INfO: Please refer to sec-
tion 7.1. File System Formats , for a more de-
tailed discussion on the differences between
the two systems.
ImpOrTANT INfO: Apple recommends
that unless you have a specific reason to use
the UNIX File System (UFS), you should
use the Mac OS Extended format since it
provides a more familiar experience to Ma-
cintosh users.