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Seagate ST3500601XS-RK - 500 GB External Hard Drive Quick Start Manual

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  • Page 1 External SATA Hard Drive Quick Start Guide...
  • Page 2 – Power Down • An eSATA PCI card occurs. Your new Seagate hard drive kit also includes award- • An AC-to-DC converter winning BounceBack Express backup software for both • A country-specific power cord the Microsoft Windows and the Mac operating system.
  • Page 3 Requirements Caution Windows 2000 Pro or later operating system with: If your drive is turned on, don’t move it You can move your drive safely when the power LED is • An eSATA connector OFF. If the power LED is lit when you move your drive, you risk excessive wear, reduced reliability, and possible Macintosh System Mac OS X (or higher) with: data loss.

  • Page 4: Hardware Setup

    Hardware setup Note: You may need You don’t need to follow this hardware setup to install a PCI eSATA sequence. Hardware setup steps 1 through 4 host adapter, if your are a good way to connect your new drive to your system does not computer, but you don’t always need to follow this have one.
  • Page 5 Caution: Reformatting destroys all data on the drive. information. Each 1. Insert the Seagate Disc Utility CD in CD drive. Back up any data that you want to keep before you volume receives its own drive letter, so 2.
  • Page 6 Launch the DiscWizard for Windows application in Windows system to read from and write to a drive that the Files directory on the Seagate Disc Utility CD, is formatted for a Mac OS. and follow the easy-to-use, on-screen instructions.
  • Page 7 1. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. The Seagate eSATA drive menu will appear: click on How to dismount the drive eSATA PCI Card Menu button. If the main menu 1.
  • Page 8 If you have data that you want to keep, back up to partition the drive to create two or more volumes, the data before formatting the drive. Seagate is not each volume will have a drive icon and label. responsible for lost data.
  • Page 9 Doing so will result in data loss. that is stored on the drive. 2. In Mac OS X, drag the Seagate external drive icon to the Trash icon in your Dock area. 3. You can safely disconnect or turn off your hard drive when the drive icon disappears from your desktop and the disc activity LED is not lit.
  • Page 10 (which, in this case, means your internal drive 4. Once the InstallShield Wizard has started the and your new external Seagate drive). You must do installation process, several screens will be displayed this because BounceBack Express for Mac OS X in quick succession.
  • Page 11 Note: When using 8. Registering your product enables CMS to provide Backup Sizing scans the folders and files on the BounceBack Express you with more effective technical support. system drive and determines the total size of the with Mac OS system files to be backed up.

  • Page 12: File Restore

    Subsequent backups File restore After the initial system backup, you have a number of BounceBack Express backs up data in the operating backup options, including: system’s native file format and uses the same directory structure (folders and files) as the original data. This •...
  • Page 13 BounceBack QuickRestore for 4. Click on the file(s) you want to restore. Windows 2000 Pro and XP Restore button Restore location Restore options BounceBack QuickRestore can restore files and folders from the backup drive quickly and easily. Note: The BounceBack QuickRestore feature does not function with Mac OS.

  • Page 14: Additional Documentation

    Special features include bootability, advanced restore, synchronisation, and versioning. A detailed BounceBack Express user’s manual is included on the Seagate Disc Utility CD. • The bootability feature creates a bootable drive image Click (?) icon on the BounceBack Control Center that enables users to recover instantly from a disaster menu to access it.

  • Page 15: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting PROBLEM PROBLEM I purchased a drive and my operating system The drive is connected to the eSATA port, but reports the capacity as much less than that. the computer does not recognise the drive. RESOLUTION RESOLUTION Disc drive manufacturers consider 1 Gbyte to equal Check power.

  • Page 16: Macintosh-Specific Problems

    RESOLUTION drivers. PCI card drivers for Windows 2000 Pro and XP may be included on the Seagate Disc Utility CD. Use Apple’s Disk Utility to locate, initialise and mount the drive. If the host controller is not seen in Device Manager, it may mean the PCI card is not properly seated.

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