Step 3 - Setup The Drive - Maxtor OneTouch 3 User Manual

MAXTOR ONETOUCH III TURBO EDITION MACINTOSH INSTALLATION

Step 3 - Setup the Drive

The Maxtor OneTouch III is shipped with a Macintosh File
Structure. No partitioning or format preparation is necessary if
you want the drive to remain as a striped (RAID 0) volume.
NOTE: If you want to configure the OneTouch III, Turbo Edition
with a mirrored (RAID 1) volume, please go to the RAID Settings
section to initially prepare the drive.
Setting Up Bootable Backup with the OneTouch Button
The following steps will provide you with a complete bootable
backup of your Macintosh computer.
NOTE: Bootable backup works with FireWire only.
When finished, you will have a backup of your entire computer,
as well as the ability to start up your computer from your Maxtor
OneTouch III drive.
Before you begin, make sure the Maxtor Install CD is NOT in your
CD-ROM drive.
The bootable backup option requires either using the entire
OneTouch III drive for the backup copy or creating a dedicated
disk partition for the backup copy. If you wish to store any files on
the OneTouch III drive that are not included on the system drive
you plan to copy, they must be stored in another partition on the
OneTouch III drive.
Prepare Your Maxtor OneTouch III
1. Select your system drive in the Finder and select Get Info
from the File menu. Write down its capacity, it is listed
here as "Capacity: xxx.xx GB". Open the Apple Disk Utility
program (located in the Applications/ Utilities folder)
2. Select your Maxtor OneTouch III drive in the list and click
on the Partition tab.
3. The following step will erase everything that currently exists
on your Maxtor OneTouch III drive. Check your drive carefully
to make sure there are no files on it you wish to keep.
4. Click on the Volume Scheme pull-down menu and select
two partitions.
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