How To Format Lacie Rugged Hard Drive

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How to format lacie rugged hard drive.

Lacie desktop manager compatibility with macos high sierra. Optional formatting and partitioning. For scheme select guid partition map. When it s finished click done.

If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state. Check lacie external hard drive state. Ios 13 and ipados support the following formats. Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting.

This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on windows and mac. 5big and 8big thunderbolt 2 not detected by lacie raid manager v2 5. If the external hard drive shows as raw or no media follow part 2 with. Instructions to find a serial number on the lacie drives.

Disk utility will format the drive. Mobile devices won t be able to recognize every hard drive format. Compatibility with macos 10 13 high sierra. Lacie big products drive compatibility list.

In the sidebar to the left select your lacie d2 drive. 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. For format select os x extended journaled. Optional formatting and partitioning.

Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears. Check out availability and prices on amazon http amzn to 2jrpbtg we pick up a 1tb lacie rugged thunderbolt from the london apple store on regents street. Read the information below if you. Enter a name for the drive.

This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts. How to format your hard drive. Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers.

Connect the lacie external hard drive to your pc via its usb cable.