Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Bryan Forbes]

I was trying to do this the other night for a friend who has a LaCie  
drive.  We were using the version of LaCie software from  
Versiontracker.  Is this different than the stuff on the cd?


It wouldn't let us format for both his XP machine and his Powerbook?   
Has anybody successfully partitioned a LaCie (using Lacie's software)  
for both a Windows & Mac box?


I was getting ready to call LaCie about this exact issue on Monday.

Bryan F.


On Aug 15, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Bill Briggs wrote:


At 10:27 PM -0600 8/14/05, Harry Corsover wrote:


On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:


Maybe you can find someone locally who has the tools that ship  
with a LaCie Drive. They can certainly do the different  
partitions with different file systems on them.





What are you using to format the drive?



 It's not me, but the OP was trying to use the Disk Utility in OS X.



Have you tried the LaCie web site? See if they have a downloadable  
version of Silverlining utility software.




 It doesn't appear to be there. It ships on the CD with LaCie  
drives, but you can't download it from the site for free.


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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Bill Briggs]

At 10:27 PM -0600 8/14/05, Harry Corsover wrote:
>On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can find someone locally who has the tools that ship with a LaCie 
>> Drive. They can certainly do the different partitions with different file 
>> systems on them.
>>
>
>What are you using to format the drive?

 It's not me, but the OP was trying to use the Disk Utility in OS X.


>Have you tried the LaCie web site? See if they have a downloadable version of 
>Silverlining utility software.

 It doesn't appear to be there. It ships on the CD with LaCie drives, but you 
can't download it from the site for free.

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Harry Corsover]

On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:

 Maybe you can find someone locally who has the tools that ship  
with a LaCie Drive. They can certainly do the different partitions  
with different file systems on them.




What are you using to format the drive?

Have you tried the LaCie web site? See if they have a downloadable  
version of Silverlining utility software.


Regards,

Harry Corsover


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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Bill Briggs]

At 12:42 PM -0500 8/6/05, Howard Katz wrote:
>Re: that 200 GB USB drive I got:
>
>I've got it reformatted, but it seems that it'll only reformat as an
>MS-DOS drive (186.x GB, too).  I've tried it using a variety of the
>Mac OS choices, and it keeps failing--repair and verify both keep
>giving me error messages.  I suppose I can use it under the MS-DOS
>setup to backup my HD?  (I'd really prefer to have it in HFS/Mac OS
>format tho!)
>
>Thanks!

 Maybe you can find someone locally who has the tools that ship with a LaCie 
Drive. They can certainly do the different partitions with different file 
systems on them.

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Howard Katz]

Re: that 200 GB USB drive I got:

I've got it reformatted, but it seems that it'll only reformat as an
MS-DOS drive (186.x GB, too).  I've tried it using a variety of the
Mac OS choices, and it keeps failing--repair and verify both keep
giving me error messages.  I suppose I can use it under the MS-DOS
setup to backup my HD?  (I'd really prefer to have it in HFS/Mac OS
format tho!)

Thanks!


Later...Howard

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Howard Katz]

AARGH.  Tried reformatting as one partition, extended HFS.  Nothing
happened.  Now it won't reformat, partition, first-aid fails, repair
fails.  Basically the drive refuses to do anything.  I'm going to try
a reformat with a peecee tomorrow, but I hate it when electronics
decide they don't like me.  :)

Later.Howard

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Howard Katz]

On 8/4/05, Bill Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  You should see two drive icons in the panel on the left; one a
> device and one a logical volume (whose icon is indented from the
> device icon). Click on the device icon. Then you'll see a "partition"
> tab on the right. Now if you select two logical volumes you should be
> able to format them with different file systems.


Yupp--see the two panels/volumes.  But the only choice I'm given for
formatting is the MS-DOS that the drive came with.  I may just chuck
it all and reformat it as one large HFS drive.   Let my friend get his
own external drive.  :)

Later..Howard

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Bill Briggs]

At 11:50 AM -0500 8/4/05, Howard Katz wrote:

On 8/4/05, Bill Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


   The disk utility will let you partition internal or FireWire drives
 and assign whatever format you wish to each partition. Not sure if it
 works on USB drives or not. I have three external FireWire drives,
 but no USB drives. It must be USB 2 it's going to be really slow

 > doing data transfer.


The disk utility that comes with Tiger?  It looks like it wants to
format both partitions at once, whatever OS I choose.  I've renames
the partitions, but when I chose "erase" all I get is something that
looks like it wants to do the whole drive--not the individual
partition name.


 You should see two drive icons in the panel on the left; one a 
device and one a logical volume (whose icon is indented from the 
device icon). Click on the device icon. Then you'll see a "partition" 
tab on the right. Now if you select two logical volumes you should be 
able to format them with different file systems.


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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Howard Katz]

On 8/4/05, Bill Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   The disk utility will let you partition internal or FireWire drives
> and assign whatever format you wish to each partition. Not sure if it
> works on USB drives or not. I have three external FireWire drives,
> but no USB drives. It must be USB 2 it's going to be really slow
> doing data transfer.


It's USB 2.0, or at least that's what the paperwork says.  :)  
Actually, since I do plan on doing mostly just backups with it, speed
isn't all that much a problem.

The disk utility that comes with Tiger?  It looks like it wants to
format both partitions at once, whatever OS I choose.  I've renames
the partitions, but when I chose "erase" all I get is something that
looks like it wants to do the whole drive--not the individual
partition name.

Later.Howard

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Re: Partitioning and formatting

[Bill Briggs]

At 9:36 AM -0700 8/4/05, Howard Katz wrote:

I thought this would be easy, but I seem to be going in circles with
this:  I just got a 200 gig USB drive (I really need to find an eBay
Recovery group :) ), and wanted to partition it into two
partitions--one for me and the Mac, one for someone else and a peecee.
 Both partitions show formatted MS-DOS--how do I format partition #2
for MacOS, or should I just leave it as MS-DOS and store/copy my mac
files to it?  (I plan on using it mostly to just back up my PB's hard
drive.)


 The disk utility will let you partition internal or FireWire drives 
and assign whatever format you wish to each partition. Not sure if it 
works on USB drives or not. I have three external FireWire drives, 
but no USB drives. It must be USB 2 it's going to be really slow 
doing data transfer.


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Partitioning and formatting

[Howard Katz]

I thought this would be easy, but I seem to be going in circles with
this:  I just got a 200 gig USB drive (I really need to find an eBay
Recovery group :) ), and wanted to partition it into two
partitions--one for me and the Mac, one for someone else and a peecee.
 Both partitions show formatted MS-DOS--how do I format partition #2
for MacOS, or should I just leave it as MS-DOS and store/copy my mac
files to it?  (I plan on using it mostly to just back up my PB's hard
drive.)
 
Thanks!
 
Later...Howard

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