Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product GD2000Q Fantom Drives
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3-23-2011 GD1DQ-GDM Rev C The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this document to .
Contents Introduction ............................................................ 3 Parts & Accessories List .......................................... 4 System Requirements ............................................. 5 FireW ire and USB 2.0 Compared .
18 3 Introduction W elcome, and thank you for purchasing GreenDrive Quad Interface Hard Disk from Fantom Drives. In photos and illustrations in this guide, The following aler t symbols are used in this guide: This signifies impor tant information for ALL users.
4 17 Parts & Accessories List The package contains the following items: • Fantom Drives GreenDrive Quad Hard Disk • Quick Star t Installation Guide • FireWire 400 cable • FireWire 800 cabl.
16 5 Q: Does the drive work with Norton Ghost/my disk imaging software? A: Y es. Norton Ghost 2003 or newer suppor t USB drives. Fantom Drives does not provide any additional drivers.
6 15 FAQs for Mac Users: Q: Why is my drive asking me to format it? It was already formatted and it contains data. A1:Run a disk repair utility on the drive. A2:Perform permission repair on your system drive. Open the disk utility (located in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility .
14 7 T r oubleshooting General Questions Q: I bought a 500GB drive, but my computer is showing 465GB. Where is the missing capacity? A: Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity . In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, and one Gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Formatting the drive in Mac OS X 1. Launch the “Disk Utility” application located under Applications/ Utilities folder . 2. Highlight your new drive and select the “Par tition” tab 3.
12 9 Optimizing W indows Caching Algorithm By default, Windows XP optimizes caching for per formance on external drives. Vista optimizes caching for quick removal. As a result, W indows XP appears to have faster access to external disks but at a greater risk of data corruption and loss.
10 11 Formatting the Drive in W indows 2000/XP/2003/V ista 1. Open the disk management console, located at Windows System32diskmgmt.msc on your system drive. A list of the attached drives and their respective volumes will appear . Select the Fantom Drives GreenDrive Quad Disk.
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