User manual LACIE D2 QUADRA HARD DRIVE

[. . . ] LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive USB 2. 0 · FireWire 400 · FireWire 800 · eSATA user manual manuel utilisateur guída utente handbuch manual de instrucciones gebruikershandleiding LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive Table of Contents page Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Introduction To The LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive 1. 1. Installing Your LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive 3. 1. Connecting the USB 2. 0 Interface Cable 3. 2. b. [. . . ] Formatting and Partitioning Your LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive Once you have setup your LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive, you can reformat it to suit your needs. Windows Users Windows 2000 and XP ­ Use the Disk Management Utility, which is native to the operating system. Formatting Using Windows 2000 and Windows XP The process of formatting a drive on a computer running Windows 2000 or Windows XP consists of two steps: (1) installing a signature on the drive, and (2) formatting the drive. These steps will erase anything that is on the disk. Connect the drive to the computer via the interface port. Right click My Computer and click Manage. From the Computer Management window, select Disk Management (located below the Storage group). 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 d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive Helpful Information page 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 30, Helpful Information, for a more detailed comparison of the various file system formats. Disk management utility (drive ready for use) LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive 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. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]