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LaCie SAFE User Manual

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LaCie SAFE Hard Drive

User Manual

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Helpful Information

Mac OS 10.x will automatically setup the disk

with the partitions and volume format you se-

lected, and your new drive will be available for

use.

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If you have formatted the LaCie SAFE drive as

NTFS, but you would like to reformat it in HFS+

for a Mac, follow these steps:

Go to the Applications > Utilities folder on

your Mac and open the Disk Utility applica-

tion. Select the SAFE drive icon and then click

Unmount to unmount the SAFE drive. Now

close the Disk Utility application.

Now open the Disk Utility application again.

You’ll see that the SAFE drive volume has been

unmounted.

Select the LaCie SAFE drive icon and choose

Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the pop-

down menu. Name the drive whatever you like

and click Erase to reformat the drive.

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Format from NTFS to HFS+

CAUTION:

Following these steps will erase

anything that is on the hard drive. Therefore,

if you have information that you want to pro-

tect or continue to use, backup this informa-

tion before performing these steps.

Unmount drive in Mac Disc Utility

application

Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file

system format