First Use Steps, USB power-sharing cable

First Use Steps

1.Connect the Rugged Safe to your computer via USB (Mac® OS 10.5.x and 10.6.x and Windows®) or FireWire 800 (Mac 10.6.x and Windows).

2.If the drive is connected via USB, connect the optional USB power-sharing cable to the drive and to your computer.

You may not require the additional power cable once the installation is complete if the USB port on your computer provides enough power to operate the device.

3.A disk called LaCie Safe Utilities will appear on your Mac or PC.

USB power-sharing cable

4. Install LaCie Safe Manager to create and register one to ten users.

Windows users: Double-click the LaCie Safe Manager icon to launch the installer.

Mac users: Double-click the LaCie Safe Manager icon and then drag the application into your Applications folder. Next, navigate to the Applications folder and double-click the LaCie Safe Manager icon to launch the installer.

5.The final step of the installation offers a choice to format the drive as FAT32 (Mac and Windows). While the Rugged Safe must be formatted, you may select “No” during the installation if you prefer HFS+ (Mac) or NTFS (Windows) for enhanced performance. However, you must format the drive after the installation. Consult the User Manual for further details on formatting.