LaCie Hard Disk Design By Neil Poulton Benutzerhandbuch

LaCie hard disk 

• DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON

 

Formatting & Partitioning

User Manual 

page 17

 Following these steps will erase everything from the 

your hard drive. If you have information that you want to protect 
or continue to use, back up this information before performing 
these steps.

1.  Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive.

2.  Select Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder menu bar.

3.  In the Utilities folder, double-click Disk Utility.

4.  The Disk Utility window will open. Select the volume labeled 

LaCie hard disk from the list of available hard disks on the 
left side of the window (

5.  Select the Partition tab.

6.  From the Volume Scheme: menu, choose the number of 

partitions you want to divide the drive into (Mac OS X gives 
you the option of dividing the drive into at most 16 partitions). 
You can adjust the size of each partition using the slide bar 
between the partitions in the Volume Scheme: area.

7.  In the Volume Information section, enter a name for each 

volume (partition), choose the volume format.

8.  Once you have finalized the volume options, click Partition. 

Click  Partition again when the alert message appears to 
continue.

9.  Mac Disk Utility will format and partition the disk according 

to your settings, and your drive will be ready to use.