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- Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 1
Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 2
portable hard drive enables you to easily add disc space to your laptop or desktop system, and the convenient size enables you to take the drive within seconds! Contents • Seagate external hard drive with a USB 2.0 interface • USB 2.0 'Y' cable • Quick Start Guide • Seagate Extra Value CD - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 3
2.0 supports transfer rates up to 480 Mbits/sec (40 times faster than USB 1.1). Note. A DC receptacle is available near the USB connector on the portable hard drive to enable the use of an external DC power supply. This power supply may be used to provide necessary power to the portable hard drive - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 4
7 for Macintosh OS information. These sections provide instructions about how to: • Install drivers • Reformat and partition the drive • Dismount the drive Installing drivers and reformatting are steps you only need to do one time. After that, you can use the drive by just connecting the USB cable - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 5
then click OK. 2. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your discs and volumes are displayed. 3. Right-click on the drive you want to reformat (or partition) and use the options provided to reformat or partition the drive. Portable External Hard Drive 5 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 6
Files directory on the Seagate Extra Value CD and follow the easy-to-use, on-screen instructions. Data-sharing between Windows and Macintosh systems Seagate does not recommend that you use your external hard drive to share data between Windows and Macintosh operating systems. This is primarily due - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 7
Your new Seagate external hard drive is factory-formatted with a FAT32 file format. Although your Macintosh operating system may recognize and mount your new drive with this format, FAT32 is not recommended for use with a Macintosh OS. You must format your drive using one of the Mac OS format types - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 8
the Mac OS use your external hard drive to share data between Windows and Macintosh systems, initialize your drive (before you use it!) for a Macintosh OS, as described above, and then purchase and install-on your Windows system-available third-party software that allows 8 Quick Start Guide - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 9
Mac OS X, drag the Seagate external-drive icon to the trash icon in your Dock area. In Mac OS 9, drag the Seagate externaldrive icon to the trash icon. 3. You can safely disconnect your hard drive when the drive icon disappears from your desktop and the drive LED is not lit. Portable External Hard - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 10
Seagate Portable Drive models. You should only use the software on the CD that is provided with the drive. Note: BounceBack Express software does not support Mac OS. BounceBack Express BounceBack Express allows you to automatically copy files from your hard drive to your external drive. It supports - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 11
instructions to install the software the default location for installing BounceBack or use the Browse button to select another location showing the installation's Setup Status. 8. Registering your product enables CMS to provide you with more effective technical support Portable External Hard Drive 11 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 12
a backup device be connected to the computer. Backup Device List identifies available hard drives for backup use and allows you to select an available device for the full system backup. Backup Set Schedule allows you to manually launch a backup operation or to schedule backups to be launched. Backup - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 13
turn off the Auto Launch feature, click on the BounceBack icon in the system tray, and select Disable BounceBack Launcher. • Scheduled Backups. Use the Settings function from the BounceBack ControlCenter to create or modify Backup Sets and schedule their run times. Portable External Hard Drive 13 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 14
the backup drive using Windows Explorer hard drive. Newer-the file on the backup drive unit is newer than file on your hard drive. Deleted-the file on the backup drive unit represents a file that has been deleted on your hard drive. 4. Click on the file(s) you want to restore. 14 Quick Start Guide - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 15
the BounceBack Express software. Want advanced features? As a BounceBack Express user, you can upgrade to BounceBack Professional, an extended version of BounceBack Express, with advanced features that provide an all-inclusive disaster-recovery and backup solution. Portable External Hard Drive 15 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 16
drive image that enables users to instantly recover from a disaster by either using the rescue CD or by exchanging the internal PC hard drive with the backup drive computer and the backup drive for changed files, and more information about the BounceBack Professional software upgrade, contact CMS or, - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 17
access. Problem: The drive is connected to the USB port, but the computer does not recognize the drive. Resolution: Check Power. Confirm the drive has power and that the drive LED flickers on and off when you plug in the drive. If the light does not flicker on and Portable External Hard Drive 17 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 18
port is on the motherboard, you should use the latest drivers provided by the motherboard manufacturer. If the host controller is not seen in Device Manager, it is probably disabled in the computer BIOS. Check Device Manager to confirm the USB hard drive is detected and configured properly. If not - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 19
://support.microsoft.com) describes how to apply the updates. Also see Microsoft Note. A DC receptacle is available near the USB connector on the portable hard drive to enable the use of an external DC power supply. This power supply may be used to provide necessary power to the portable hard drive - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 20
). You will also need drivers for your Seagate hard drive if you are using the USB port in Windows 98SE (see www.seagate.com/support/kb/ disc/faq/external_usb_drivers.html). Macintosh-specific problems First make sure you have the latest Apple operating system software updates installed on your - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 21
Macintosh OS displays the following message when I connect the drive to my system: "Unable to read volume-must initialize." Resolution: Your Mac OS does not recognize the drive format. Use Apple's Disk Utility to initialize the drive with a Mac OS Extended format. Portable External Hard Drive 21 - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 22
Appendix If you should need an external DC power supply, please ensure it meets the following shall be greater than or equal to 5.18Vdc Step load variation: 0 to 90% Max current: 1.3A Power: 7W typical Ripple: 50mVp-p max from 10Hz to 100Mhz Efficiency: Better than 75% typical Temperature range: 0°C - Seagate Portable Hard Drive | Portable External Hard Drive Quick Start Guide - Page 23
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product offerings or specifications. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form
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