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USB Cipher Shield™ Hard Drive Series with AES USB Hi-Speed Encrypted Har d Drive User ’ s Manual For W indows XP , V ista, 7 For MAC OS X 10.2.8 or higher Revision 3.
2 W elcome to BUSlink® USB Hi-Speed Cipher Shield™ Series with AES Hard Drive User Guide Congratulations on your purchase of a BUSlink product. Please read through these operating instructions. After you fi nish, put them away in a safe place for future reference.
3 System Requirements PC • A vailable USB Hi-Speed port • Microsoft W indows® XP/V ista (3TB or larger drive require W indows V ista or higher) MAC • PowerMac G4 processor or higher (3TB or larger drive require Intel CPU Mac) • A vailable USB Hi-Speed port • Mac OS X 10.
4 Bddftt Bddftt Qpxfs Qpxfs Lfz!Uzqf Lfz!Uzqf Lfz!Tubuvt Lfz!Tubuvt Lfz!tpdlfu Lfz!tpdlfu Front Panel Regular Model Dual Drive Model Bilateral/Colateral Model • The Cipher Key™ can be hot plugged. After you plug in the key , the Key Status should be green.
5 PC Installing Using PC USB Hi-Speed Port Overview Before plugging in the drive, make sure your computer system have a USB Hi-Speed port available. Windows Setup 1. Start up the computer and boot into W indows. 2. Normally your machine will be ready to install new hardware.
6 V erifying Installation 1. After the driver setup has completed, check for proper installation. T o do this, go to My Computer . Double click on My Computer on the desktop. If you cannot fi nd on desktop, click on Start and click on My Computer . Make sure that there is a new hard drive and drive letter listed.
7 PC Operating Instructions • NOTE: In order to make sure that W indows fi nishes writing all the data that is pending to the drive, be sure to follow safe removal procedures to avoid losing data or crashing W indows.
8 If the computer fails to respond or give the message “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now .” , try one more time. If unsuccessful again, shut down the computer before removing the device.
9 PC Partitioning / Formatting Instructions Y our drive is preformatted with NTFS partition; it is ready to be used in a PC. NTFS is usable in Windows XP/ V ista. If you ever found a need to reformat the drive, make sure you follow these instructions.
10 Macintosh Installing Using MAC USB Hi-Speed Port Older Macintosh model does not come with USB Hi-Speed port. Y ou will need to purchase a USB Hi-Speed PCI card for desktop or CARDBUS card for notebook. At present only OS X 10.2.8 and higher, supports USB Hi- Speed.
11 MAC Formatting Instructions The drive is preformatted with F A T32 partition; it is ready to be used in a Macintosh and PC. If you do not need compatibility with PC, it is recommended that you reformat the drive into MAC native format before use.
12 6. Click Erase to con fi rm. 7. Disk Utility will start formatting the drive. Y ou can see the progress bar at the bottom of the window . The blue bar indicates the progress. Once it go all the way to the right, the format is done. 8. After it’ s done, you can quit the utility .
13 Frequently Asked Questions Cipher Shield™ F AQ Q: What is Cipher Shield™? Cipher Shield™ is our solution to the increasing security concern of keeping your important data on the hard drive private and secure. W e uses NIST approved encryption algorithm to encrypt the data on the Cipher Shield drive secure.
14 Q: Should I update my driver? Y es, it is a good idea to always keep your driver up to date. Regularly check our website at www.buslink.com for driver update. It is also a good idea to check Microsoft’ s W indows Update website at http://windowsupdate.
15 Support F AQ Q: My warranty is expiring very soon. What should I do? 1. Read and follow the warranty statement in Product and Service Information section toward the back of the manual. 2. Call us for RMA number right away . W e will reject any unit sent to us without RMA number shown clearly outside the box.
16 T rademarks Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands or product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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19 For Europe This product is in conformity with the EMC directive. T ested T o Comply W ith FCC Standar ds FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
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An important point after buying a device BUSlink CipherShield (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought BUSlink CipherShield yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data BUSlink CipherShield - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, BUSlink CipherShield you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get BUSlink CipherShield will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of BUSlink CipherShield, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime BUSlink CipherShield.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with BUSlink CipherShield. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device BUSlink CipherShield along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
