Seagate Barracuda Installation Manual
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- Page 1 Installation Guide Guide d’installation Installationsanleitung Guida all’installazione Guía de instalación FOR PC AND MAC ® POUR PC ET MAC ® FÜR PC UND MAC ® PER PC E MAC ® PARA PC Y MAC ®...
- Page 2 PCI-X) host adapter. • Back up the data on your existing hard drive(s) before installing new hardware. For future reference, please record the drive Seagate is not responsible for lost data. label information in the spaces below: • Save your Seagate disk drive box and ESD- Model # ST ____________________________________ protective container in case you have to ship your drive.
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Page 3: Get Started
Get started Open your computer case See your computer manual for instructions. Gather your materials 1 Turn your computer off. Installation 2 Unplug your system from the wall outlet. Guide 3 Remove the cover from the system. Disk Utility CD Note: Refer to your computer manual for instructions on... -
Page 4: Install The Drive
Install the drive Mount the drive in a 3.5-inch device bay with the label facing up and in front of a fan whenever possible. Note: For ease of installation, some systems may require Mounting you to connect the Screws power and data cables before mounting the drive in the device bay. -
Page 5: Attach The Cables
Applying a jumper to the outer-most pins of the cables. jumper block will force the drive into the 1.5Gb/ sec transfer mode – allowing it to function on the above mentioned chipsets. See the figure below for Seagate SATA drive jumper configurations. Serial ATA Serial ATA cable... - Page 6 1 Locate an available SATA port on your motherboard motherboard or add-in SATA card and Barracuda drives with 6Gb/sec SATA are connect one end of the data cable. designed for easy installation. It is usually not 2 Connect the other end of the data cable to necessary to set any jumpers on the drive the rear of the hard drive.
- Page 7 Make sure your computer detects Choose an installation option your drive at start up • Single-drive installation If your new drive connects directly to your If your computer does not have a working motherboard and is not automatically detected hard drive, or this is a new system build, at start up, you may need to run the System go to the single drive installation instructions Setup (BIOS) program to enable the SATA ports.
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Page 8: Hardware And Software Requirements
Install DiscWizard Hardware and software requirements for drives larger than 137GB Insert the Seagate Disk Utility CD into your CD-ROM drive. If the main menu screen does To properly address the full capacity of drives not appear automatically, browse to your larger than 137GB, your system must support CD-ROM drive letter and click on restart file. - Page 9 OS requirements for drives larger SATA host drivers than 137GB All SATA hosts support 48-bit BIOS and require drivers that will allow the hard drive to be seen Operating System Requirements by the OS. During the installation, your OS will request mass storage drivers.
- Page 10 4 Choose the Add New Disk option to format are adding your contained on the CD that came with your the drive. new Seagate SATA motherboard or add-in SATA host adapter. drive to your PC for Please extract the drivers to a diskette before additional storage and you start the installation.
- Page 11 Upgrade and clone Upon reboot, the clone procedure starts copying your data. Follow the on-screen instructions and shut down your system after 1 Choose the Clone Disk option and select next. the copy. Windows Vista users need to be ready with the Vista OS disk for security authentication.
- Page 12 Mac for additional storage and performance. sequence in your system BIOS if you plan on re-connecting If you want to image your old drive to your new Seagate your old drive after cloning. SATA drive and make it bootable, review the Apple Disk...
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Page 13: Getting Help
8 After the format is complete, the volume will These numbers can be used to get help from mount on your desktop and be ready for Seagate support, register your drive and look immediate storage. up information on the Seagate web site. - Page 14 © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, Barracuda, DiscWizard, and SeaTools are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.