User manual LACIE SAFE HARD DISK

[. . . ] SAFE HARD DRIVE User Manual LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Table of Contents page Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Introduction To The LaCie SAFE Hard Drive Your SAFE Drive Capabilities SAFE Three Levels of Security 2. What's Included with Your LaCie SAFE Drive 2. 2. Before Installing Your LaCie SAFE Drive 3. 1. [. . . ] · You will be formatting partitions larger than 32GB. · You need to store individual files that are larger than 4GB. · You need a filing system that can be mirrored or structured like a RAID 5 configuration. ImpOrTANT INfO: If you will be sharing the hard drive between Mac and Windows operating environments, you will want to leave the drive formatted in FAT 32. n Mac Users Mac OS 10. x Users: You have the option of formatting the drive in one of four formats: Mac OS Standard (HFS), Mac OS Extended (HFS+), MSDOS File System and UNIX File System (UFS). HFS - Mac OS Standard Mac OS Standard refers to the file system used by Mac OS 8. 0 and earlier. This is no longer a modern file system specification, and Mac OS Extended is more efficient. Only use this file system if you are creating a volume smaller than 32MB, using a Mac with a 680X0 processor, or you are creating a file structure that will be need to be used by Macs using Mac OS 8. 0 or earlier. HFS+ - Mac OS Extended 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. Building off of HFS, they increased the number of blocks from 65, 536 to 4. 29 billion. With HFS+, you are no longer limited by block size. MS-DOS File System 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. UNIX File System This is the file system based on UNIX, and is preferable for users developing UNIX-based applications within Mac OS 10. x. Unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System, you should instead format your drive using Mac OS Extended (HFS+), because it provides Mac users with a more familiar operating experience. LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Helpful Information page 7. 2. Formatting Your LaCie SAFE Hard Drive Once you have set-up your LaCie Hard Drive, you can reformat it to suit your needs. n 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). Windows will list the hard drives that are installed on the system. Locate the LaCie drive that you have attached, highlight it, right-click on the name and select Format. Disk management utility (Windows) Disk management utility (Windows) LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Helpful Information page 5. [. . . ] Windows, Mac OS and UNIX are among the most common. Overwrite ­ To write data on top of existing data thus erasing the original data. Partition, -ing ­ After formatting, the hard drive is not yet ready to store files. It must be divided into sections that will contain special information required for a Mac or PC to operate and other sections that will contain the files. [. . . ]