LaCie 300818 - SAFE Mobile 120 GB External Hard... User manual

Quick Start Guide

PACKAGE CONTENTS
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable
USB Power-Sharing cable
CD with PDF User’s Manual
Quick Start Guide
*For more information, please consult your User’s Manual.
Contact www.lacie.com for technical support.

1
Connect the Hi-Speed USB Power-
Sharing cable to draw extra power
when necessary.
Connect the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable
to your drive.
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3
3
Connect the USB 2.0 cables to
your computer. After a few seconds,
the LaCie drive will mount on
your computer.
4
For Windows users: double-click
on the icon “LaCie SAFE drive” in
your “My Computer” folder, and
then double click on the lock icon
named “LaCie SAFE drive”.**
For Mac users: click on the icon
“LaCie SAFE drive” mounted on your
desktop and then click on the Lock
icon named “LaCie SAFE drive”.**
* * The volume of the drive doesn’t appear; you only see a virtual partition of 100MB including the
application software. Once a user has been recognized, the total storage volume mounts.
If the icon doesn’t appear, please consult your User’s Manual.

5Follow the Wizard Install.
Please consult the User’s
Manual for more details
about user registration.
6Click on the button “Unlock drive” and swipe your fi nger to access the drive.

7 To swipe your fi nger correctly:
A) Make sure that the front of
the drive is facing you, and
wait for the top LED to
become orange.
LaCie drives are pre-formatted as FAT 32 volumes and can be used across multiple platforms (Windows
2000/XP, Mac OS 10). For optimum performance, the drive can easily be re-formatted in NTFS for
Windows 2000/XP users or HFS+ for Mac users. FAT 32 limitations: fi le size cannot exceed 4GB, and
Mac special characters cannot be used in fi les names. For more information about formatting, please
refer to the User’s Manual.
B) With your fi nger pressed
fl at on the groove and
fi ngertip touching the top
recess, slowly slide fi nger
toward you.
A
B
FRONT OF DRIVE