User manual LACIE BIG DISK EXTREME TRIPLE

[. . . ] LaCie d2 Big Disk Extreme+ Hard Drive USB 2. 0 · FireWire 400 · FireWire 800 user manual manuel utilisateur guída utente handbuch manual de instrucciones gebruikershandleiding LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Table of Contents page Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Introduction to the LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 1. 1. Installing Your LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 3. 1. Connecting the FireWire 400 Cable 3. 2. c. [. . . ] If the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window appears, click Cancel. Windows will list the hard drives that are installed on the system. Locate the drive that is represented by the icon. Right click the icon and select Initialize. In the box to the right that says Unallocated, right click and select New Partition. . . In the first page of the New Partition Wizard, click Next. Disk management utility Disk management utility LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Helpful Information page 0 8. In this window, you have the option of selecting the Quick Format option. This allows a much faster format; however, this will disallow Disk Management to check the drive for errors (recommended). Click Next. Disk management utility 13. Click Finish to begin the format process. Your drive is ready for use and should now appear in your My Computer. IMporTanT InFo: Please refer to page 28, Helpful Information, for a more detailed comparison of the various file system formats. Disk management utility (drive ready for use) LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Helpful Information page Mac Users Mac OS 10. x will use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system. Connect the drive to the computer via one of its interfaces and turn on the drive by pressing the blue button. 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. 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 labeled LaCie Hard 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 format (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: Warning! [. . . ] A partition is just one section of the hard drive that will contain either special data put there by Silverlining or other files and data. Peripheral ­ A generic term applied to printers, scanners, mice, keyboards, serial ports, graphics cords, disk drives and other computer subsystems. This type of peripheral often relies on its own control software, known as a peripheral driver. Port, hardware ­ A connection component (SCSI port, for example) that enables a microprocessor to communicate with a compatible peripheral. [. . . ]