There are two options: OPTIMIZE Let Toolkit choose the optimal format for your computer system and configure the volume for you with just a few clicks. Click on the More menu icon for the volume you want to optimize. And the setup assistant on the drive, will only let me format a 32 GB maximum NTFS partition, instead of making the whole.

On the Main Menu, click on the LaCie Mobile Drive device. In disk utility, the only options are different types of Mac OS formatting. All 3 were unchecked, some i'm thinkingg. Connect LaCie Mobile Drive to your computer. One can write files to it on the PC which the Mac can also see & read. Merely load the small MacDrive program into the PC-not the Mac & simply plug in your LaCie formatted Mac Firewire Drive, Its never failed & so easy. The other two options are: Compress Files & Folders and Disable Last Access Time. The LaCie drive must be initially Mac formatted. I haven't tried plugging into A windows *Since* i selected that option. OH and I forgot to add, when I plugged in my LaCie I went to System Preferences>NTFS for Mac OS X, I selected my hard drive and checked Access Permissions. I'm thinking of returning the LaCie and maybe giving Seagate a try? I'v seen around in the forums its a trusted brand for hard drives. I plugged the hard drive in there today and still. Lol just trying to show the precautions I made. plugged into XP today (an IT school might I add, which means obviously, the drivers are uptodate - we use XP home - Dell).

SO THEN, I downloaded 'Paragon' formated the hard drive to 'Windows NT File System' (NTFS if im correct? lol). There is no icon in Explorer for me to access the harddrive.Īlso, I formated the hard drive and changed it to 'FAT32' and when I plugged it into XP & Vista, same thing, the hard drive is seen but still no icon in explorer. Its recognized by Windows, the remove device icon comes up on taskbar. I work a lot with VMWare, so I need the LACIE to be able to connect to both PC and MAC. 2) If you format the Lacie in NTFS, you can only read from it when connected to Mac without other software. It shows as Device is working properly, drivers are up-to-date. 1) If you format the Lacie in Mac format, then you can't use it on a Windows machine without software eg MacDrive.

Format lacie for both pc and mac