LaCie Drive User Manual

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LaCie Brick Mobile Hard Drive

User Manual

page 19

Formatting and Partitioning

partitions in the

Volume Scheme:

area.

In the

7.

Volume Information

section, enter a name

for each volume (partition), choose the volume for-

mat (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard, UNIX

File System, or MS-DOS if you did step 5).
Once you have finalized the volume options, click

8.

Partition

. Click

Partition

again when the alert mes-

sage appears to continue.
Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk

9.

according to your settings, and your drive will be

ready to use.

ImpOrTANT INfO:

Apple recommends that

unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX

File System (UFS), you should use the Mac OS

Extended format because it provides a more famil-

iar experience to Macintosh users.

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