How To Format Lacie Rugged Hard Drive

When it s finished click done.

How to format lacie rugged hard drive. For scheme select guid partition map. Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. Mobile devices won t be able to recognize every hard drive format. How to format your hard drive.

Disk utility will format the drive. Newer seagate and lacie branded external drives come preformatted exfat some older drives are formatted for pcs some for macs and some of them have special utilities allowing them to work between both without formatting. If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. A dialog box opens.

For format select os x extended journaled. If you use the drive with only one type of computer you can optimize file copy performance by formatting the drive in the native file system for your operating system ntfs for windows or hfs for macs. Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears. This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on windows and mac.

The lacie rugged ssd draws power through a usb port. Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers. Compatibility with macos 10 13 high sierra. Enter a name for the drive.

Instructions to find a serial number on the lacie drives. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows. Ios 13 and ipados support the following formats. Optional formatting and partitioning.

This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts. 5big and 8big thunderbolt 2 not detected by lacie raid manager v2 5. Read the information below if you. Optional formatting and partitioning.

In the sidebar to the left select your lacie d2 drive. Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable. Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting. Check lacie external hard drive state.

If the external hard drive shows as raw or no media follow part 2 with.