User manual LACIE D2 HARD DRIVE EXTREME WITH TRIPLE INTERFACE

[. . . ] LaCie Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface 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 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface User's Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents Foreword Precautions 1. Package Contents And Views Of The Drive 2. 2. 1. [. . . ] Select the checkbox next to the drive and click Next. Important Info: Check the "quick format" box. 7) Now, with the disk management window open, a new drive will be visible. Right-click on the available space and select Create Partition. . . 8) This will bring up the Create Partition Wizard. Click Next. LaCie Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface User's Manual 4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 40 10). It is recommended that you leave the partition set to the maximum available size, unless you want multiple partitions on the same drive. 11) Select Assign drive letter and select the desired letter for the drive. and then select a file system: FAT32 FAT32 is a file system that is compatible with Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP; however, it has limitations. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you will not be able to create a partition greater than 32GB. 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. Tech Note: For a more detailed discussion on the various file system formats and partitioning, please refer to section 5. 1. 2. File System Formats ­ Windows Users. LaCie Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface User's Manual 5. Tech Tips 5. 1 File System Formats 5. 1. 1. Mac Users Mac OS 10. x Users: The LaCie Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface is preformatted 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 peformance in Mac OS environments, format and partition the drive as one large Mac OS Extended volume. 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 9. x · Works reliably with FAT 32 partitions less than 32GB Mac OS X prefers that all paritions be the same format, therefore only the first FAT 32 partition is guaranteed to mount. Mac OS 10. 1. x · Works reliably with FAT 32 partitions less than 32GB Mac OS 10. 2. x · Works reliably with FAT 32 partitions less than 128GB Mac OS Extended (HFS+) · Does not mount FAT 32 partitions greater than 128GB Mac OS Extended refers to the file system used by Mac OS 8. 1 Mac OS 10. 3. x and later. HFS+ represents an optimization of the older HFS file system by using hard disk space more efficiently. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]