Installing Applications On Your Drive - Maxtor OneTouch User Manual

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2. Click the Power Management tab.
This page allows you to set the time period of inactivity
before the drive will go to sleep. It is possible to choose
as short as 3 minutes or as long as 5 hours. You can also
set it to never go to sleep.
These settings are stored in the drive, so if you plug your
drive into a different computer, the settings will not
change.
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3. Select a time period using the drop-down menu in the
middle of the window.
4. Click the Apply button.
5. Click the OK button to close the OneTouch Utility.
Power Management Settings: Macintosh
OS 9
1. Under the Apple menu, select Control Panels.
The Control Panels folder will open.
2. Find and open the Energy Saver control panel.
The Energy Saver window will open, and the
Sleep Setup settings should be displayed.
3. Make sure the checkbox for 'Separate Timing for hard
disk sleep' is checked.
The slider at the bottom of the screen controls the time
period of inactivity before the all system hard drives will
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go to sleep. It is possible to choose as short as 10
minutes and as long as 60 minutes. You can also set it to
never go to sleep.
4. Select a time period using the slider in the bottom of the
window.
5. Close the Energy Saver control panel.
OS X
1. Under the Apple menu, select System Preferences.
The System Preferences window will open.
2. Click the Energy Saver icon (a light bulb).
The Energy Saver panel will open, and the Sleep
settings should be displayed.
3. Make sure the checkbox for 'Put the hard disk to sleep
when possible' is checked.
The top setting, 'Put the computer to sleep when it is
inactive for,' controls the time period of inactivity before
the computer and it's hard drives will go to sleep. It is
possible to choose as short as 1 minute and as long as
60 minutes. You can also set it to never go to sleep.
4. Select a time period using the top slider in the window.
5. Close the Energy Saver control panel.

Installing Applications on Your Drive

You may install and run applications from your OneTouch drive like
any other drive on your system.

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