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  • Page 1 PRODUCT MANUAL G DRIVE ® Portable USB and FireWire® g-technology.com...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    G DRIVE G DRIVE ® ® Table of Contents Welcome to G-DRIVE mobile Table of Contents Safety & General Use Safety Precautions ........... 4 Backup Your Data ............ 5 About Your G-DRIVE mobile Introduction .............. 7 What’s in the Box ............ 8 System Requirements ..........

  • Page 3: Safety & General Use

    G DRIVE ® Safety & General Use Safety Precautions ......... p.4 • Backup Your Data ........... p.5 •...

  • Page 4: Safety Precautions

    ® Safety & General Use Safety Precautions The G-DRIVE® mobile’s warranty may be void as a result of the failure to respect the pre-cautions listed here. If you detect a problem with your drive, please contact our Technical Support department.

  • Page 5: Backup Your Data

    To help prevent the loss of your data, we highly recommend that you keep TWO copies of your data in separate storage locations. Keep one copy on your G-Technology drive. Keep a second copy on your internal hard drive, another G-Technology drive, or a form of removable storage media.

  • Page 6: About Your G-Drive Mobile

    G DRIVE ® About Your G-DRIVE mobile Introduction ............ p.7 • What’s in the Box .......... p.8 • System Requirements ......... p.8 • Overview of the Drive ....... p.9 • Easy Installation for Mac ......p.9 • Disconnect the Drive ......... p.10...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Back up all the files on your MacBook Pro® automatically! G-DRIVE mobile works with Time Machine® right out of the box. You can also use the drive on a Windows® computer or work cross-platform.

  • Page 8: What's In The Box

    If any items are missing, please contact G-Technology at g-technology.com/support. System Requirements G-DRIVE mobile supports the folllowing Operating Systems. The drive is set up at the factory for use with Mac OS® systems, and formatted as ‘HFS+ with Journaling’ .

  • Page 9: Overview Of The Drive

    It will flash brighter as data is transferred to or from the hard drive. Easy Installation for Mac G-DRIVE mobile easily attaches to your computer via the USB or FireWire port. Simply use one of the included cables to connect the drive to the appropriate connection on your computer.

  • Page 10: Disconnect The Drive

    About Your G-DRIVE mobile Disconnect the Drive A great feature of G-DRIVE mobile is its ability to be connected and disconnected while your computer is running. To prevent failures and/or data loss, it is important to follow the steps below when disconnecting or ‘unmounting’ the drive from your computer.

  • Page 11: Using Your Drive On Mac

    G DRIVE ® Using Your Drive on Mac Use with Time Machine ......p.12 • Initialize Drive for Mac ....... p.14 • Restore the Drive Icon ....... p.17 • Reformat with Partitions ......p.19 •...

  • Page 12: Use With Time Machine

    Mac and provides automatic backup for your files. The following steps will quickly set up G-DRIVE mobile with Time Machine. 1. When you attach G-DRIVE mobile for the first time, the Time Machine dialog box should automatically appear. Click the Use as Backup Disk button.
  • Page 13 Using Your Drive on Mac ® 3. In the dialog box that appears, select the G-DRIVE mobile. Click the Use for Backup button. 4. Make sure the Time Machine switch is set to ON. You can set its options by clicking the Options button.

  • Page 14: Initialize Drive For Mac

    Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-DRIVE mobile will be displayed in the left-hand column. 2. Select the G-DRIVE mobile by clicking its drive icon in the left-side column. Information about the drive willl be displayed at the bottom of the window.
  • Page 15 • Mac OS Extended: Use this format for best performance and media storage. 5. Click the Erase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to erase the G-DRIVE mobile partition. p.15...
  • Page 16 • Click the Don’t Use or Decide Later button if you do not want to use Time Machine at this point. 8. Quit the Disk Utility program. After reinitializing the drive, the custom icon for G-DRIVE mobile has been erased. You can optionally restore this icon with the steps next page.

  • Page 17: Restore The Drive Icon

    If not, double-click the Zip file to open. Next, double-click the DMG file to open the G-Technology Icons package. 3. Click to select the drive icon for G-DRIVE mobile in the package window. Press Command+C to copy the icon. (below)
  • Page 18 6. Press Command+V to paste the custom G-DRIVE mobile icon into the Get Info window. (below right) The icon for your G-DRIVE mobile has been restored and you can close the Get Info window. Your drive is now fully ready for use!

  • Page 19: Reformat With Partitions

    The following steps will guide you through this simple process of partitioning your drive. In this example, we will partition a 500 GB G-DRIVE mobile connected via FireWire. The steps will be identical for your drive, only the name may be different.
  • Page 20 ® Using Your Drive on Mac ® 2. Select the FireWire or USB icon – not the G-Technology drive icon – by clicking it in the left-side column. 3. Click on the Partition button in the main window. 4. Select the number of partitions you would like from the Volume Scheme menu.
  • Page 21 6. Repeat this process for each partition you have created. 7. Click the Apply button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to erase the G-Technology drive partition. WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.
  • Page 22 Disk Utility. 10. Quit the Disk Utility program. After reinitializing the drive, the custom icon for the G-Technology drive has been erased. You can optionally restore this icon to each partition with the steps on this page.

  • Page 23: Using Your Drive On Windows

    G DRIVE ® Using Your Drive on Windows ® Windows Use ..........p.24 • Cross Platform Use ........p.25 •...

  • Page 24: Windows Use

    ® Windows Use G-DRIVE mobile is set up at the factory for use with Mac OS systems. A simple initialization will prepare your drive for use with Windows 7, Vista and XP systems. For helpful information on configuring and using your drive with Windows, please visit z.com/support.

  • Page 25: Cross Platform Use

    Using Your Drive on Windows ® Cross Platform Use You can set up G-DRIVE mobile for use on both Windows and Mac system by formatting the drive as ‘FAT32’ . To do this, use the Disk Utility application and format the drive to MS-DOS (FAT), also known as FAT32.
  • Page 26 11 letters in the drive name. 5. Click the Erase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to erase the G-DRIVE mobile partition. WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.
  • Page 27 FAT32. 7. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are finished! 8. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE mobile will be erased. No icons are available for FAT32. With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows Vista, 7 and XP and on Mac OS machines.

  • Page 28: Support & Warranty

    G DRIVE ® Support & Warranty Technical Support ........p.29 • Limited Warranty ......... p.30 • Copyright ............p.32 •...

  • Page 29: Technical Support

    Support & Warranty Technical Support Thank you for purchasing G-DRIVE mobile. If you have any comments or questions about this manual or the product, please let us know! G-Technology appreciates and values its customers, striving to give you the finest service and support.

  • Page 30: Limited Warranty

    Support & Warranty Limited Warranty HGST, a Western Digital Company (“HGST”) Including G-Technology for External Hard Disk Drives What does this limited warranty cover? This Limited Warranty applies to new HGST products purchased from an authorized HGST dealer by the original purchaser for normal use and not for resale. HGST warrants that a covered product is free from defects in materials and workmanship, with the exceptions stated below.
  • Page 31 To obtain limited warranty service, you must first obtain a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) g-technology.com/support and ship-to address by contacting G-Technology at . Please follow the instructions found on the website. You must return the covered hard disk drive using approved packaging to our logistics center.

  • Page 32: Copyright

    Support & Warranty CAPACITY DEFINITION AND DISCLAIMER For G-Technology products 1TB or greater: “One gigabyte (GB) is equal to one billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes). Accessible capacity will vary from the stated capacity due to formatting and partitioning of the hard drive, the computer’s operating system, and other factors”...

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