How To Reformat Lacie Rugged Hard Drive

Here is a video to show you how to format your lacie 250 500gb hard drive.

How to reformat lacie rugged hard drive.

For scheme select guid partition map. Open the start menu and type disk management and press enter when the create and format hard disk partitions option appears. Under partition layout select 1 partition. In the sidebar to the left select the lacie rugged secure drive that shows the capacity.

The majority of lacie external hard drives can be found in the 1 to 10. Enter a name for the drive. Click the drive in toolkit and select format lacie rugged mini review. So if you are formatting a drive that has already been used be sure to copy any files you will ever want to see again onto a computer or backup drive.

Enter a name for the volume. You can reformat a lacie rugged mini using the toolkit utility included with the drive. Disk utility will format the drive. This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts.

For format select os x extended journaled. This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts. Select the lacie hard drive in the left column. Formatting erases all data on the drive.

Choose a format from the drop down window. Click erase and confirm your selection in the pop up window. When it s finished click done. Enter a name for the drive.

Most external hard drives offer at least 500gbs worth of storage. In the sidebar to the left select your lacie d2 drive. A dialog box opens. Click the erase tab.

For instructions on how to format a drive please click on the link of your computer s operating system. For format select os x extended journaled. While that s plenty of space for a casual user s collection of photos videos and documents some users may want more space for large hd video files games and photos.