User manual LACIE BOX

[. . . ] LaCie Box · DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON User Manual Table of Contents page 1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 1. MinimumSystemRequirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. 2. BoxContent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. 3. ViewoftheDrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Thismessagewillappear:"SafetoRemoveHardware"(orsimilar). Itisnowsafetodisconnectthedevice. 2. 3. 2. Mac Users Fig. 10-MacUsers Dragtheharddriveicontothetrash(Fig. 10 - Mac Users). (The iconpicturedbelowisagenericUSBdeviceicon. Yourdrivemay berepresentedbyaniconthatlookslikethedriveitself. ) When the icon disappears from the desktop, the drive can be disconnected. LaCie Box · DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON User Manual Formatting page 13 3. Optional Formatting & Partitioning IfyourneedschangewhenusingtheLaCieBox, youcanreformat your SATA 3. 5" hard drive to optimize it for use with Windows orMac, orforcross-platformuse. Forexample, ifyoupreviously formatted your drive to work with a Mac using HFS+, but now you want to share your hard disk with Windows users, you can reformatittoFAT32(MS-DOS). Toreformatyourdrive, follow theinstructionsinthissection. IMPORTANT INFO:Pleasecopyallcriticalorimportantdata fromtheLaCieBoxtoyourcomputer'sinternalharddriveoran external hard drive before reformatting. Reformatting will erase everythingfromtheSATAdiskwithintheLaCieBox. Ifyouhave datathatyouwanttoprotectorcontinuetouse, copythisinformationbeforereformatting. File System Formats Therearethreedifferentfilesystemformatcategories:NTFS, FAT 32(MS-DOS), andMacOSExtended(HFS+). Seethetablebelowformoreinformation. Use NTFS if. . . . . . you will be using the drive only with Windows XP, WindowsVista, orWindows7(performancewillgenerally be greater when compared to FAT 32). This file systemiscompatibleinreadonlymodewithMacOS 10. 3andhigher. What is Formatting? Whenadiskisformatted, thefollowingthingsoccur:theoperatingsystemerasesallofthebookkeepinginformationonthedisk, tests the disk to make sure that all of the sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (i. e. , those that are scratched), and creates internaladdresstablesthatitlaterusestolocateinformation. Use HFS+ if. . . . . . youwillbeusingthedriveonMacsonly;performance will generally be greater when compared to FAT 32. ThisfilesystemisNOTcompatiblewithWindowsOS. Use FAT 32 (MS-DOS) if. . . . . . youwillbeusingyourdrivewithbothWindowsand Mac. Maximumsinglefilesizeis4GB. What is Partitioning? Youcanalsodividetheharddiskintosections, calledpartitions. Apartitionisasectionoftheharddisk'sstoragecapacitythatis createdtocontainfilesanddata. Forinstance, youcouldcreate threepartitionsonyourdrive:onepartitionforyourofficedocuments, oneasabackup, andoneforyourmultimediafiles. Or, if youwillbesharingthedrivewithanotherpersoninyourhousehold or office, you can create a partition for each person who usesthedrive. Partitioningisoptional. LaCie Box · DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON User Manual Formatting page 14 3. 1. Windows Users The process of formatting a drive on a computer running WindowsXP, WindowsVista, orWindows7consistsoftwosteps:(1) installingasignatureonthedrive, and(2)formattingthedrive. Thesestepswilleraseanythingthatisonthedisk. CAUTION:Followingthesestepswilleraseeverythingfromthe LaCieBox. Itisveryimportanttobackupallinformationthatyou wanttoprotectorcontinuetousebeforeperformingthesesteps. Connectthedrivetothecomputerviatheinterfaceport. From the "Computer Management" window, select Disk Management(locatedbelowtheStoragegroup). SeeFig. Ifthe"InitializeandConvertDiskWizard"windowappears, clickCancel. WindowswilllisttheHardDisksthatareinstalledonthesystem. LocatetheSATAdiskhousedwithintheLaCieBox. RightclicktheiconandselectInitialize. IntheboxtotherightthatsaysUnallocated, right-clickand selectNewPartition. . . Onthefirstpageofthe"NewPartitionWizard, "clickNext. continued on next page >> Fig. 11 Fig. 12 LaCie Box · DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON User Manual 8. 12. OntheFormatPartitionwindow, selectyourFilesystemand Performaquickformat. ClickNext(Fig. [. . . ] Step 1: Installing a Hard Drive. Isthereaconflictwithotherdevice driversorextensions?Didyoucorrectlyinstallthe3. 5" SATAdisk? LaCie Box · DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON User Manual Problem Thedriveisnotrunningnoticeablyfaster whenconnectedvia Hi-SpeedUSB2. 0. Troubleshooting page 21 Question IsthedriveconnectedtoastandardUSBportonyourcomputer? Answer IfyourdriveisconnectedtoastandardUSBport, thisisnormal. A Hi-SpeedUSB2. 0devicecanonlyoperateatHi-SpeedUSB2. 0 performancelevelswhenitisconnecteddirectlytoaHi-SpeedUSB 2. 0port. Otherwise, theHi-SpeedUSB2. 0devicewilloperateatthe slowerUSBtransferrates. Formoreinformation, pleaseseesection 4. 1. ChecktoseethattheHi-SpeedUSB2. 0driversforbothyourhostbus adapteranddevicehavebeeninstalledcorrectly. Ifindoubt, un-install thedriversandre-installthem. Also, makesurethatyouareconnecteddirectlytoaHi-SpeedUSB2. 0portonyourcomputer. Optimizing Data Transfers formoreinformation. IsthedriveconnectedtoaHiSpeedUSB2. 0portonyour computer? [. . . ]