Maxtor FireWire 800 - Manual (Page 12)

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2. Plug the other end of the FireWire cable into an available
FireWire port on the back of the drive.
The installation is complete and your Maxtor OneTouch II drive is
ready to use!
If you did the Full Installation, including Retrospect Express, we
encourage you to go to the next section to setup the Maxtor
OneTouch button for easy, automated backup of your entire
computer, anytime, at the touch of a button!
Setting Up Bootable Backup with the
OneTouch Button
The following steps will provide you with a complete bootable
backup of your Macintosh computer.
Bootable backup works with FireWire only.
When finished, you will have a backup of your entire computer, as
well as the ability to start up your computer from your Maxtor
OneTouch II drive.
Before you begin, make sure the Maxtor Install CD is NOT
in your CD-ROM drive.
The bootable backup option requires either using the entire
OneTouch II drive for the backup copy or creating a dedicated
disk partition for the backup copy. If you wish to store any
files on the OneTouch II drive that are not included on the
system drive you plan to copy, they must be stored in
another partition on the OneTouch II drive.
Prepare your Maxtor OneTouch II Drive
1. Select your system drive in the Finder and select Get Info from
the File menu. Write down its capacity, it is listed here as
“Capacity: xxx.xx GB”.
2. Open Apple’s Disk Utility program (located in the Applications/
Utilities folder)
3. Select your Maxtor OneTouch II drive in the list and click on the
Partition tab
The following step will erase everything that currently
exists on your Maxtor OneTouch II drive. Check your
drive carefully to make sure there are no files on it you
wish to keep.
4. Click on the Volume Scheme pull-down menu and select
two partitions .
5. Select the first partition in this list and type in the capacity of
your system drive (you checked in step #1 above) to the Size
field. In the Name field, enter the name
Maxtor Bootable
Backup.