User manual LACIE SAFE MOBILE HARD DRIVE WITH ENCRYPTION

[. . . ] Helpful Information 5 5 7 7 7 8 8 9 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 14 16 17 17 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 23 24 24 24 25 LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Table of Contents page 7. 1. Warranty Information Glossary 25 25 26 27 27 29 31 31 32 33 35 39 40 42 43 LaCie SAFE Hard Drive User Manual Forward page Copyrights Copyright © 2006 LaCie. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of LaCie. Trademarks Apple, Mac, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. [. . . ] Originally, FAT was only 16 bits, but after the second release of Windows 95 it was upgraded to 32 bits, hence the name FAT 32. In theory, FAT 32 volume sizes can range from less than 1MB all the way to 2TB. It is the native file system of Windows 98 and Windows Me, and is supported by Windows 2000 and XP. When FAT 32 is used with Windows 2000 and XP, though, volume size is limited to 32GB (by the Windows partition utility, i. e. NTFS This acronym stands for New Technology Filing System, and it is the native file system for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and XP. 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. 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. 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. 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. You should see a volume that represents your internal hard drive, and one labeled LaCie SAFE drive. From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the number of partitions you want to divide the drive into by clicking on the pull down menu starting with Current (Mac OS 10. x gives you the option of dividing the drive into at most 8 partitions). You can customize the size of the partitions by using the slide bar between the partitions in the Volume Scheme: area. In the Volume Information section, create a name for each partition, choose the volume format (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard or UNIX File System) and the volume size. Once you have finalized the volume format, number of partitions, size and options, click OK. [. . . ] Protocol means a set of rules for operating the physical interface, such as: do not read or write before the drive is ready. I/O (Input/Output) ­ Refers to an operation, program or device whose purpose is to enter data into or to extract data from a computer. KB (KiloByte) ­ Basically, this means 1, 000 bytes, but it is actually 1, 024 bytes. 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. [. . . ]