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register for free download from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com Protect your investment - Box Content LaCie Rugged XL Hard Disk Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable eSATA cable Power supply kit Quick Install Guide LaCie Storage Utilities and User Manual are pre-loaded on the drive All utilities and manuals are additionally available for free technical support at www.lacie.com/register QIG_Rugged-XL_090223.indd 2 2/23/09 11:11:52 AM
register for free download from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com Protect your investment - Box Content LaCie Rugged XL Hard Disk Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable eSATA cable Power supply kit Quick Install Guide LaCie Storage Utilities and User Manual are pre-loaded on the drive All utilities and manuals are additionally available for free technical support at www.lacie.com/register QIG_Rugged-XL_090223.indd 2 2/23/09 11:11:52 AM
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... disk utility (Disk Management for Windows or Disk Utility for Mac) to format or partition your drive. To launch LaCie Setup Assistant: Windows users: Double-click the LaCie drive icon in My Computer. The user manual and utilities will require manual formatting. QIG_Rugged-XL_090223.indd 5 2/23/09 11:11:52 AM NOTE: If you do not launch LaCie Setup Assistant or if you from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com NOTE: Using LaCie Setup Assistant does not prevent you quit LaCie Setup Assistant...
... disk utility (Disk Management for Windows or Disk Utility for Mac) to format or partition your drive. To launch LaCie Setup Assistant: Windows users: Double-click the LaCie drive icon in My Computer. The user manual and utilities will require manual formatting. QIG_Rugged-XL_090223.indd 5 2/23/09 11:11:52 AM NOTE: If you do not launch LaCie Setup Assistant or if you from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com NOTE: Using LaCie Setup Assistant does not prevent you quit LaCie Setup Assistant...
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... the device. See the User Manual (pre-loaded on the casing is a replacement part such as a pickup tray, etc. • The tamper seal on the drive) for more information. This warranty is void if: • The product was operated/stored in writing; • The product was installed improperly; • The serial number of shipment. Manufacturer's Declaration for the designated warranty period. Use only the power supply shipped...
... the device. See the User Manual (pre-loaded on the casing is a replacement part such as a pickup tray, etc. • The tamper seal on the drive) for more information. This warranty is void if: • The product was operated/stored in writing; • The product was installed improperly; • The serial number of shipment. Manufacturer's Declaration for the designated warranty period. Use only the power supply shipped...
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Connecting the Power Supply ...11 2.2. Optional Formatting and Partitioning 15 3.1. Formatting for Mac Users...21 4. Troubleshooting...22 Mac Troubleshooting...22 Windows Troubleshooting...24 5. Cables and Connectors ...8 1.4.1. Connecting the Interface Cable ...12 2.3. Disconnecting Your LaCie Rugged XL...14 2.5. Switching Interfaces...14 3. Formatting from FAT32 to NTFS 19 3.3. USB Cables and Connectors...8 1.4.3. Formatting from HFS+ (Apple File System) to NTFS...17 3.2.2. Introduction...4 1.1. Box Content...5 1.2. Minimum System Requirements...6 1.3. Views of ...
Connecting the Power Supply ...11 2.2. Optional Formatting and Partitioning 15 3.1. Formatting for Mac Users...21 4. Troubleshooting...22 Mac Troubleshooting...22 Windows Troubleshooting...24 5. Cables and Connectors ...8 1.4.1. Connecting the Interface Cable ...12 2.3. Disconnecting Your LaCie Rugged XL...14 2.5. Switching Interfaces...14 3. Formatting from FAT32 to NTFS 19 3.3. USB Cables and Connectors...8 1.4.3. Formatting from HFS+ (Apple File System) to NTFS...17 3.2.2. Introduction...4 1.1. Box Content...5 1.2. Minimum System Requirements...6 1.3. Views of ...
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... cause harmful interference 2. LaCie rugged XL • Design by turning the equipment off your waste equipment for CE Certification We, LaCie, solemnly declare that interference will help . Other trademarks mentioned in this product not authorized by handing it is essential that only the supplied power cord be disposed of this document to the following conditions: 2006/95/EC Low Voltage Directive; 2004/108...
... cause harmful interference 2. LaCie rugged XL • Design by turning the equipment off your waste equipment for CE Certification We, LaCie, solemnly declare that interference will help . Other trademarks mentioned in this product not authorized by handing it is essential that only the supplied power cord be disposed of this document to the following conditions: 2006/95/EC Low Voltage Directive; 2004/108...
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...). Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on this device. ✦✦ Read this data. Avoid placing your LaCie Rugged XL near water, or in damp or wet conditions. Your LaCie Rugged XL contains no circumstances will LaCie be held liable for the recovery or restoration of this User Manual carefully and follow the correct procedure when setting up the device. ✦✦ Do not open your LaCie Rugged XL or...
...). Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on this device. ✦✦ Read this data. Avoid placing your LaCie Rugged XL near water, or in damp or wet conditions. Your LaCie Rugged XL contains no circumstances will LaCie be held liable for the recovery or restoration of this User Manual carefully and follow the correct procedure when setting up the device. ✦✦ Do not open your LaCie Rugged XL or...
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... eSATA interfaces ✦✦ Throughput of drives that will power you through your computer. Introduction Building on over a decade of design excellence, LaCie has created a new line of up to your specific applications. Secure and stable, the LaCie Rugged XL is an ideal way to add space to 3 Gbits/s via eSATA ✦✦ Back up your demanding data needs. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual...
... eSATA interfaces ✦✦ Throughput of drives that will power you through your computer. Introduction Building on over a decade of design excellence, LaCie has created a new line of up to your specific applications. Secure and stable, the LaCie Rugged XL is an ideal way to add space to 3 Gbits/s via eSATA ✦✦ Back up your demanding data needs. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual...
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eSATA cable 4. Introduction page 5 1 SATA SATA 2 3 4 rugged XL Hi-Speed USB 2.0 & eSATA 3Gbits 5 Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 1.1. External power supply 5. Quick Install Guide NOTE: The User Manual and software utilities are pre-loaded on the drive. USB cable 3. LaCie Rugged XL 2. Box Content Your box contains the LaCie Rugged XL and items 2-6, listed below: 1. In the event that the drive should need to be repaired or serviced, it must be returned in its original packaging. IMPORTANT INFO: Please save your packaging. LaCie rugged XL •...
eSATA cable 4. Introduction page 5 1 SATA SATA 2 3 4 rugged XL Hi-Speed USB 2.0 & eSATA 3Gbits 5 Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 1.1. External power supply 5. Quick Install Guide NOTE: The User Manual and software utilities are pre-loaded on the drive. USB cable 3. LaCie Rugged XL 2. Box Content Your box contains the LaCie Rugged XL and items 2-6, listed below: 1. In the event that the drive should need to be repaired or serviced, it must be returned in its original packaging. IMPORTANT INFO: Please save your packaging. LaCie rugged XL •...
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LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 1.4. USB Cables and Connectors USB is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to support high speed devices such as hard drives, CD/DVD drives and digital cameras. Cables and Connectors 1.4.1. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 is shipped with the original USB specifications. ✦✦ Hot-swappable: no need to USB 1.1 transfer rates. USB Cable Ends Introduction page 8 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Benefits ✦✦ Backwards compatibility: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 works with a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ...
LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 1.4. USB Cables and Connectors USB is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to support high speed devices such as hard drives, CD/DVD drives and digital cameras. Cables and Connectors 1.4.1. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 is shipped with the original USB specifications. ✦✦ Hot-swappable: no need to USB 1.1 transfer rates. USB Cable Ends Introduction page 8 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Benefits ✦✦ Backwards compatibility: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 works with a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ...
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... internal connections. An extrusion on the outside the PC. Introduction page 9 eSATA Benefits ✦✦ eSATA interface can achieve up to be rugged and durable. eSATA Cables and Connectors Your LaCie Rugged XL uses the latest in external applications. Utilizing staggered pins to aid insertion, the specification ensures device detection and passive and active limits to power down the system or reboot. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual...
... internal connections. An extrusion on the outside the PC. Introduction page 9 eSATA Benefits ✦✦ eSATA interface can achieve up to be rugged and durable. eSATA Cables and Connectors Your LaCie Rugged XL uses the latest in external applications. Utilizing staggered pins to aid insertion, the specification ensures device detection and passive and active limits to power down the system or reboot. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual...
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... not be downloaded from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com TECHNICAL NOTE: The LaCie Setup Assistant does not prevent you copy the user manual and utilities onto your desktop. It will appear on the LaCie drive icon in "My Computer". Optional Formatting and Partitioning for Mac) to format or partition your drive. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 2.3. Launching LaCie Setup Assistant Before using your computer's native disk utility program to reformat your LaCie drive. To launch LaCie Setup Assistant: Windows users: double...
... not be downloaded from the LaCie website: www.lacie.com TECHNICAL NOTE: The LaCie Setup Assistant does not prevent you copy the user manual and utilities onto your desktop. It will appear on the LaCie drive icon in "My Computer". Optional Formatting and Partitioning for Mac) to format or partition your drive. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 2.3. Launching LaCie Setup Assistant Before using your computer's native disk utility program to reformat your LaCie drive. To launch LaCie Setup Assistant: Windows users: double...
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... Tray (located in this prompt. 3. Mac Users 1. To prevent failures, however, it should say, "Safely remove..."). Disconnecting Your LaCie Rugged XL eSATA and USB external devices feature "plug & play " connectivity, which means that your drive can be connected and disconnected while the computer is running . Switching Interfaces eSATA and USB external devices feature "plug & play " connectivity, which means that your drive can be disconnected. 2.5. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 2.4.
... Tray (located in this prompt. 3. Mac Users 1. To prevent failures, however, it should say, "Safely remove..."). Disconnecting Your LaCie Rugged XL eSATA and USB external devices feature "plug & play " connectivity, which means that your drive can be connected and disconnected while the computer is running . Switching Interfaces eSATA and USB external devices feature "plug & play " connectivity, which means that your drive can be disconnected. 2.5. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual 2.4.
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... compatible with Windows or Mac, or for cross-platform use your LaCie Rugged XL, LaCie Setup Assistant formats your drive according to determine which format is best for use , copy this purpose. Partitioning is Formatting? This file system is a section of the sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (i.e., those that you use . If your needs change, you can reformat your household or office, you . If the hard disk does not appear in read only mode...
... compatible with Windows or Mac, or for cross-platform use your LaCie Rugged XL, LaCie Setup Assistant formats your drive according to determine which format is best for use , copy this purpose. Partitioning is Formatting? This file system is a section of the sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (i.e., those that you use . If your needs change, you can reformat your household or office, you . If the hard disk does not appear in read only mode...
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... the Disk Utility window. NOTE: "Disk 0" is your operating system from recognizing the LaCie Rugged XL (ex. Optional Formatting and Partitioning page 16 Mac Users 1. Select Disk Management under Storage (you may prevent your LaCie Rugged XL. 4. Refer to mount on the left side of your LaCie Rugged XL if: ✦✦ You want to a Windows computer). Finding the File System Format You may determine the process you connect a hard disk formatted in Finder. 2. If you 'll use to reformat it...
... the Disk Utility window. NOTE: "Disk 0" is your operating system from recognizing the LaCie Rugged XL (ex. Optional Formatting and Partitioning page 16 Mac Users 1. Select Disk Management under Storage (you may prevent your LaCie Rugged XL. 4. Refer to mount on the left side of your LaCie Rugged XL if: ✦✦ You want to a Windows computer). Finding the File System Format You may determine the process you connect a hard disk formatted in Finder. 2. If you 'll use to reformat it...
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... to section 3.2.1. Formatting from HFS+. 3.2.1. The Computer Management window opens. 2. CAUTION: Following these steps if you used LaCie Setup Assistant to create an exchange volume on your LaCie Rugged XL as a FAT32 volume, proceed to NTFS Follow these steps will erase everything from the right-click options menu (Fig. 3.2.1-B). If you reformatted your LaCie Rugged XL for Windows Users Before you start, connect the drive to your disk is formatted as a FAT32...
... to section 3.2.1. Formatting from HFS+. 3.2.1. The Computer Management window opens. 2. CAUTION: Following these steps if you used LaCie Setup Assistant to create an exchange volume on your LaCie Rugged XL as a FAT32 volume, proceed to NTFS Follow these steps will erase everything from the right-click options menu (Fig. 3.2.1-B). If you reformatted your LaCie Rugged XL for Windows Users Before you start, connect the drive to your disk is formatted as a FAT32...
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... in the disk allocation bar and select New Partition... The New Partition Wizard opens. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Optional Formatting and Partitioning page 19 3.2.2. Select Disk Management under Storage (you may have information that you reformatted your LaCie Rugged XL as an HFS+ volume on the right. 3. Continued on the "Unallocated" volume in this section if you used LaCie Setup Assistant to format your drive for use with a Mac or if...
... in the disk allocation bar and select New Partition... The New Partition Wizard opens. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Optional Formatting and Partitioning page 19 3.2.2. Select Disk Management under Storage (you may have information that you reformatted your LaCie Rugged XL as an HFS+ volume on the right. 3. Continued on the "Unallocated" volume in this section if you used LaCie Setup Assistant to format your drive for use with a Mac or if...
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... 2.1. Contact LaCie Technical Support for the most recent software updates will help . You can also visit the downloads page, where the most current version of the Troubleshooting tips to -use with other troubleshooting tips listed here. Connecting The Power Supply and section 2.2. Is the drive's power supply connected and turned on the desktop. LaCie rugged XL • Design by the computer. Troubleshooting If your specific question. Troubleshooting page 22 Manual Updates LaCie strives to give you quickly install and utilize the...
... 2.1. Contact LaCie Technical Support for the most recent software updates will help . You can also visit the downloads page, where the most current version of the Troubleshooting tips to -use with other troubleshooting tips listed here. Connecting The Power Supply and section 2.2. Is the drive's power supply connected and turned on the desktop. LaCie rugged XL • Design by the computer. Troubleshooting If your specific question. Troubleshooting page 22 Manual Updates LaCie strives to give you quickly install and utilize the...
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... eSATA devices and see sections 3. The drive is working slowly. Optional Formatting And Partitioning Did you get an error message telling you that these types of the original USB standard. Apple has only recently begun incorporating native Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports in doubt, un-install the drivers and re-install them. Minimum System Requirements. Error messages under Mac OS 9.x. Finding the File System Format. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Troubleshooting page 23 Problem...
... eSATA devices and see sections 3. The drive is working slowly. Optional Formatting And Partitioning Did you get an error message telling you that these types of the original USB standard. Apple has only recently begun incorporating native Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports in doubt, un-install the drivers and re-install them. Minimum System Requirements. Error messages under Mac OS 9.x. Finding the File System Format. LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Troubleshooting page 23 Problem...
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LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Troubleshooting page 24 Windows Troubleshooting Problem The drive is not recognized by pressing the On/Off/Auto button the back of the Troubleshooting tips to the LaCie drive. Does your computer, or to the same port or hub? Is the drive's power supply connected and turned on the Devices and Volumes tab. If the drive is connected to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port or hub. Open Apple System Profiler and...
LaCie rugged XL • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual Troubleshooting page 24 Windows Troubleshooting Problem The drive is not recognized by pressing the On/Off/Auto button the back of the Troubleshooting tips to the LaCie drive. Does your computer, or to the same port or hub? Is the drive's power supply connected and turned on the Devices and Volumes tab. If the drive is connected to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port or hub. Open Apple System Profiler and...
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... select About This Mac. Mac users: Click on the Apple icon in the troubleshooting checklist, and you have the following information on hand: Information LaCie hard drive serial number Macintosh/PC model Operating system version Processor speed Computer memory The brands and models of other internal and external peripherals installed on your computer Where to Find Information Located on a sticker at www.lacie.com. Windows users: Right click My...
... select About This Mac. Mac users: Click on the Apple icon in the troubleshooting checklist, and you have the following information on hand: Information LaCie hard drive serial number Macintosh/PC model Operating system version Processor speed Computer memory The brands and models of other internal and external peripherals installed on your computer Where to Find Information Located on a sticker at www.lacie.com. Windows users: Right click My...