Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers.
How to format lacie rugged hard drive.
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Lacie desktop manager compatibility with macos high sierra.
Disk utility will format the drive.
Ios 13 and ipados support the following formats.
When it s finished click done.
For format select os x extended journaled.
Compatibility with macos 10 13 high sierra.
For scheme select guid partition map.
How to format your hard drive.
Instructions to find a serial number on the lacie drives.
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.
If not open disk management and check the external hard drive state.
Open file explorer and check if the external hard drive appears.
Enter a name for the drive.
Mobile devices won t be able to recognize every hard drive format.
A dialog box opens.
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The lacie rugged ssd draws power through a usb port.
You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows.
If the external hard drive shows as raw or no media follow part 2 with.
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Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs.
Read the information below if you.
Optional formatting and partitioning.
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.
Check lacie external hard drive state.
Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting.
This will be the name displayed when the drive mounts.