Sunday, 5 November 2006
Formatting Your Lacie Drive for Windows and Mac
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I had a bit of a problem this week as my mac hard drive failed on me. I tried booting it into target mode, safe mode and verbose mode, but it wouldn't start back up. Apparently there was a problem with a catalog file. It was only able brought back to life with the help of a third party disk utility running a thorough scan. I found that I can format my Lacie external firewire so that I can back up information from my pc and my mac (something I will be doing more regularly after this week). To format your Lacie hard drive to work on both platforms, do the following:
- Open Apple Disk Utility
- Click the Partition Tab
- Click the Options Button
- Select GUID Partition Table
- Under Volume Scheme, select the number of partitions.
- Choose each volume and select the format.
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