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8.1.2. Formatting for Windows Vista/7

Master Boot Record or GUID Partition Table?

Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning has been the hard drive

standard for many years. It supports a maximum of four primary

partitions with a size limit of 2TB per partition. Due to partition

limitations in the face of ever-expanding hard disk drive sizes,

Global Unique Identiﬁer Partition Tables (GPT) has been estab-

lished. It allows for more partitions with greater capacities. Fur-

ther, GPT has many additional advantages that may offer en-

hancements in performance.

However, GPT is not compatible with Windows XP 32-bit. While

Windows XP 64-bit supports GPT, it is best to use MBR if you in-

tend to share your LaCie device with computers running Windows

XP 32-bit.

Switching from MBR to GPT or, conversely, from GPT to MBR, is

not difﬁcult. Please copy all important data to a separate disk be-

fore making the change since adjusting the partition table format

is destructive:

Right-click on Computer and choose Manage. From the Man-

age window select Disk Management and ﬁnd your LaCie disk

drive. Right-click on the disk number to choose GPT (Fig. 78) or

MBR (Fig. 79).

The steps listed below will help you format and partition your disk

drive using Windows Vista or Windows 7. Please see 8.1.1. Format-

ting for Windows XP or 8.2. Reformatting: Mac Users for instruc-

tions on formatting using alternative operating systems. For more

information on the optimal ﬁle format, go to 8. Reformatting the

LaCinema PlayHD Hard Disk.

CAUTION: Following these steps will erase all media ﬁles from the

LaCinema PlayHD. Back up all media that you want to protect or

continue to use before you format the disk drive. Please note that

your PlayHD settings will be preserved (i.e. language).

1. Right-click on Computer and choose Manage. From the Man-

age window select Disk Management.

2. From the list of drives in the middle of the Disk Management

window, right-click on your LaCie hard drive. Select New Sim-

ple Volume... (Fig. 77)

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