User manual LACIE SAFE MOBILE HARD DRIVE WITH ENCRYPTION

[. . . ] Connecting Your LaCie SAFE Hard Drive 4. 1. Connect the USB 2. 0 Cable to Your LaCie Drive and to Your Computer 4. 3. Attach Chain Lock to Your SAFE Drive (Optional) 5. Install the Drive Software Windows Users Mac Users 5. 2. [. . . ] file compression, encryption, permissions, and auditing, as well as the ability to mirror drives and RAID 5 capabilities. The minimum supported volume size for NTFS is 10MB, with a maximum of 2TB, with no limit to file size. Volumes created in NTFS can only be directly accessed (not through shares) by Windows NT, Windows 2000 and XP, without resorting to help from third-party products. Guidelines for Choosing FAT 32 Or NTFS Use FAT 32 if: · You want to access your data on any Operating System--FAT 32 is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Mac OS 10. x. · You will be dual booting with an Operating System other than Windows NT or Windows 2000. · You may need the ability to dual boot down the line. Once you have converted a volume from LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Helpful Information page FAT 32 to NTFS, there is no going back. You can convert from FAT 32 to NTFS, but not the other way around. Use NTFS if: · You want to optimize drive performance under Windows 2000 or XP. · You want to encrypt files, assign permissions to files, or want to audit files for access. · You will be formatting partitions larger than 32GB. · You need to store individual files that are larger than 4GB. At this screen, you will be prompted to enter a name for the hard drive (it is LACIE by default), select a file system format, and allocate unit size. ImpOrTANT INfO: Please refer to section 7. 1. File System Formats, for a more detailed discussion on the differences between the two systems. Disk management utility (Windows) 7. After you have set the volume information for your new hard drive and clicked OK, Windows will issue a final warning. Click OK to continue and Windows will begin formatting the hard drive. Once formatting is complete, you will be able to use your hard drive. Disk management utility (Windows) LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Helpful Information page n Mac Users Mac OS 10. x ­ Use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system. Connect the drive to the computer via the USB 2. 0 port and swipe a registered finger over the sensor to access the data storage area of the LaCie SAFE drive. Once you have access to the drive, go to the Menu Bar, and open Go. 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. [. . . ] Mb (Megabit) ­ Equivalent to 1, 000, 000 bits. MB (Megabyte) ­ Basically means one million bytes, but is actually 1, 024 Kilobytes or 1, 024 x 1, 024 bytes, which equals 1, 048, 576 bytes. Operating System (OS) ­ Software that controls the assignment and use of hardware resources such as memory, processor time, disk space and periph- LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual page Glossary erals. An operating system is the basis on which software (applications) run. [. . . ]