User manual LACIE MOBILE HARD DRIVE

[. . . ] Register your product online for free technical support: www. lacie. com/register. htm go directly to manual LaCie Mobile Hard Drive User's Manual - FireWire Table of Contents Foreword Precautions 1. Unpacking Your LaCie Drive 1. 1 Minimum System Requirements 2. Getting Connected 2. 1 Connect the FireWire Cable to the Drive and to Your Computer 2. 2 Connecting the Optional Power Sharing Cable 3. Using Your LaCie Drive 3. 1 Formatting and Partitioning Your LaCie Hard Drive 3. 1. 1 Windows Users 3. 1. 2 Mac Users 4. [. . . ] Therefore, if you have information that you want to protect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps. 1) Connect the drive to the computer via the FireWire port. 2) Once the drive mounts onto the desktop, go to the Menu Bar, and open Go. 3) From the Go menu, click on Applications. 4) In the Applications menu, open the Utilities folder, and then double-click Disc 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 that reads LaCie. 6) Select the LaCie drive, and then click on the Partition tab. 7) 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. LaCie Mobile Hard Drive User's Manual - FireWire Using Your LaCie Drive page 15 8) 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. Important Note: Please refer to section 4. 2. File System Formats, for a more detailed discussion on the differences between the two systems. Important Note: Apple recommends that unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System (UFS), you should use the Mac OS Extended format since it provides a more familiar experience to Macintosh users. 9) In the Options section, click the Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers box if you plan on sharing the drive between the Mac OS 9. x and Mac OS 10. x. 10) Once you have finalized the volume format, number of partitions, size and options, click OK. The following message will appear: "Warning!Saving the new volume will erase all existing volumes. Are you sure you want to do that?" Click Partition to continue. 11) Mac OS 10. x will automatically setup the disk with the partitions and volume format you selected, and your new drive will be available for use. LaCie Mobile Hard Drive User's Manual - FireWire Helpful Information page 16 4. Advice For Optimizing FireWire Connections The following technical information relates to your LaCie CD-RW Drive and gives some practical advice: 4. 1. 1. What is FireWire/IEEE 1394? A serial bus used to connect external computer and consumer electronic devices to computers and consumer electronic consoles. "1394" is an abbreviation of IEEE 1394, the name given to this high-performance serial bus. [. . . ] If the drive is configured as a removable drive under Windows 98SE or Windows Me, the removable setting will need to be re-checked each time that the drive is taken to a new system. To do this, go to the Device Manager and click on the Drives Settings tab. Error messages under Mac OS 10. x. Did you get an Error ­50 message When copying files or folders from Mac OS 10. x to a FAT 32 while copying to a FAT 32 volume?volume, certain characters cannot be copied. These characters include, but are not limited to: ?<>/\: Check your files and folders to ensure that these types of characters are not being used. [. . . ]