User manual LACIE D2 ESATA II 3GBITS HARD DRIVE

[. . . ] LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits User's Manual How To Use This Manual How To Use This Manual In the toolbar: Previous Page / Next Page Go to Previous View / Go to Next View Go to Contents Page / Go to Precautions Page On the page: Click on the text within the Contents page to jump to information on that topic. Printing: While optimized for onscreen viewing, the pages of this manual are formatted for printing on 8 paper, giving you the option to print the entire manual or just a specific page or section. 1/2" x 11" and A4 sized To Exit: From the Menu bar at the top of your screen, select: File > Quit. Icons Used In This Manual Italicized paragraphs feature an icon describing the type of information being given. Important Info: This icon refers to an important step that must be followed. Tech Note: This icon refers to tips to help maximize performance. Caution!This icon indicates a potential hazard, and gives tips on how to avoid them. LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits User's Manual Table of Contents page 2 Table of Contents Foreword Precautions 1. Connecting The Drive To Your Computer 3. 2. 1. [. . . ] File System Formats ­ Windows Users. 4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 24 NTFS NTFS is a newer file system that is compatible only with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It has fewer limitations than FAT 32 and will enable a partition to be created that is larger than 32GB. 15) Disk Management will create the partition and begin formatting the drive. Once completed, close Disk Management and your new drive will be ready to use. LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits User's Manual 4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 25 4. 3. Configuring Your LaCie Drive As A Bootable Disk The LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits supports being accessed as a bootable disk under both the Mac and Windows operating systems. Mac Users Important Info: Please consult your computer's user's manual to ensure that your system supports external Serial ATA hard drive boot functionality. Once the drive has appeared on the desktop, install your system software and choose your LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits as the destination for the installation. After the installation has been completed successfully, go to System Preferences, choose Startup Disk and select your disk from the list. Windows Users Important Info: Please consult your computer's user's manual to ensure that your system supports external Serial ATA II hard drive boot functionality. If your BIOS and system support booting off an ATA/IDE PCI bus, you can configure your device as a boot disk under Windows 2000 and XP. Install your system software and choose your LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits as the destination for the installation. After installation has been completed successfully, go into your BIOS and re-order the boot order so that the LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits is the boot disk. LaCie d2 SATA II 3Gbits User's Manual 5. Mac Users Mac OS 10. x Users: The LaCie Hard Drive is pre-formatted as a Mac OS Extended volume. You may customize the drive by reformatting and/or partitioning the drive with separate file system formats. For optimal performance in Mac OS environments, format and partition the drive as one large Mac OS Extended volume. Mac OS Extended (HFS+) Mac OS Extended refers to the file system used by Mac OS 8. 1 and later. HFS+ represents an optimization of the older HFS file system by using hard disk space more efficiently. With HFS+, you are no longer limited by block size. MS-DOS File System (FAT 32) This is the Microsoft file system, more typically known as FAT 32. This is the file system to use if you are going to be using your LaCie Hard Drive between Macs and Windows operating systems. Important Info: If you will be sharing the hard drive between Mac and Windows operating environments, you will want to follow these guidelines: Mac OS X prefers that all partitions be the same format, therefore only the first FAT 32 partition is guaranteed to mount. [. . . ] This process of dividing up the hard drive is called partitioning. 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. [. . . ]