Seagate Personal Storage 5000DV Installation Guide (Windows) - Page 13

All Windows:Your new drive appears in the same way as Connecting with the FireWire Cable W your other drives with the name New Volume and a drive letter assigned by the operating system. The assigned letter will vary depending upon the number of other storage devices connected to your computer. If you're running Windows 2000 or XP, Maxtor suggests reformatting your drive for best performance and operation. If you plan to connect this drive to a computer running Windows 98 or ME, you will need to keep the drive in its original format. Further information is provided in This section describes how to connect your Personal Storage 5000DV and 5000XT drive using the FireWire cable. For more information about the FireWire interface, go to http:// www.askfor1394.com. Windows 98SE: make sure you have first installed the Windows 98SE 1394 Storage Supplement. See "I want to install the Windows 98SE Storage Supplement" on page 31 W for more information. 2 "Formatting Your Drive" on page 14. Do not plug a FireWire cable into the drive when a USB Now proceed to "Step 3. Setting Up the Maxtor OneTouch Feature" on page 11. cable is already connected to the drive.This drive will only operate on one interface at a time. It may take several minutes to mount the drive on your Macintosh. You can use both FireWire connectors at the same time to connect several FireWire devices to your computer in a daisychain. For example, you can connect one FireWire cable to M Mac OS 9: Maxtor requires that you re-format your drive with the Mac OS Extended format (also called HFS Plus) for proper operation with Retrospect Express software and your computer and the second FireWire cable to another FireWire-compatible device, such as a camcorder or an external CD-R recorder. the OneTouch button. Further information is provided in "Formatting Your Drive" on page 14. To connect the FireWire cable Your new drive appears on your desktop with the name untitled. If you receive a message: "This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize the disk?", refer 1. Plug one end of the FireWire cable into any available FireWire port on your computer. " Laptop Users - Many laptop computers, and most to the section titled: "My computer reports the drive is camcorders, have a smaller 4-pin FireWire port requiring "unreadable" (Mac OS 9)" on page 30. a special 4-pin to 6-pin FireWire cable (not included). Mac OS X: An Alert box will appear saying the drive is unreadable. See "To format the drive for Mac OS X" on This cable is available at most computer stores or at www.maxtordirect.com in North America. page 16. Now proceed to "Step 3. Setting Up the Maxtor OneTouch Feature" on page 11. Installing the Drive 9