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PCMCIA External Hard Disk User Manual

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  • Page 1 User’s Manual...
  • Page 3 FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
  • Page 4 TRADEMARKS PCMCIA are the trademarks of Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT and MSCDEX are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. *All of the third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.1 ......... USING HARD DISK WITH PCMCIA INTERFACE ............ ADVANCED USAGE ....................... 23 PARTITION THE EXTERNAL HARD DISK ............24 USING FDISK UNDER WINDOWS 98SE/Me ........... 24 USING DISK MANAGEMENT UNDER WINDOWS 2000/XP ......26 CHANGE THE DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNED TO HDD .......... 29...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The PCMCIA hard disk is a portable compact hard disk drive that attached with the PCMCIA interface of computer. The external hard disk provides a fast and easy way to add more storage space to your computer. Plus, the Plug & Play feature gives you a great convenience on the road. The external hard disk can be easily connected to computer for using, and can even be disconnected and re-connected while the computer is running.

  • Page 8: Part Names And Functions

    PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS Your external hard disk may differ slightly from the figures shown, however the controls will operate as described below. 1. LED: Power-on and Data-access indicator LED. 2. Interface Connector: This interface connector connects to the PCMCIA interface cable.
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  • Page 10: Hardware Installation

    PC: get power from the PCMCIA socket of computer. DC: get power from the external power. Note: If you are using an external power to powers the external hard disk, the sequence is, change the Power Source Switch to ‘DC’ position, then connect the external power to the External Power Jack of the drive, and attach the external power to the outlet.
  • Page 11 Get power from PCMCIA socket Get power from the external power - 5 -...

  • Page 12: Software Installation For Windows 95/98

    Refer to the figure shown alongside to see if the PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2. Ensure the PCMCIA interface cable and then the external power connections (if you are using the external power) are made as described in Hardware Installation. Slowly insert the PC Card of interface cable into the PCMCIA socket of computer and press firmly until the connector is seated (Please note that the PC Card is keyed to guide for proper insertion).
  • Page 13 Click Next. 6. Wait for few seconds, Windows will find a driver from the floppy diskette, select ‘PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6)’, and click Next. 7. Ensure the driver file that Windows found is ‘A:\ PCMHD.INF’. Click Next.
  • Page 14 ‘My Computer’. 10. If the external hard disk doesn’t appear in ‘My Computer’ or doesn’t work properly, please go into ‘Device Manager’ to check whether the devices are installed as the table and figure.

  • Page 15: Software Installation For Windows Me

    Refer to the figure shown alongside to see if the PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2. Ensure the PCMCIA interface cable and then the external power connections (if you are using the external power) are made as described in Hardware Installation. Slowly insert the PC Card of interface cable into the PCMCIA socket of computer and press firmly until the connector is seated (Please note that the PC Card is keyed to guide for proper insertion).
  • Page 16 ‘My Computer’. 7. If the external hard disk doesn’t appear in ‘My Computer’ or doesn’t work properly, please go into ‘Device Manager’ to check whether the devices are installed as the table and figure.

  • Page 17: Software Installation For Windows 2000

    PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2. Ensure the PCMCIA interface cable and then the external power connections (if you are using the external power) are made as described in Hardware Installation. Slowly insert the PC Card of interface cable into the PCMCIA socket of computer and press firmly until the connector is seated (Please note that the PC Card is keyed to guide for proper insertion).
  • Page 18 5. Insert the device driver diskette into floppy drive, only select ‘Specify a location’, leave the other check boxes be empty (don’t select them), and click Next. When the wizard asks for the path, type ‘A:\WIN2000’ in ‘Copy manufacturer’s files from’ location, click OK. 6.
  • Page 19 Disk’ chapter, to prepare your hard disk drive. Installed Device Drivers Location PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6) (Windows 2000) Installed under ‘IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers’. The real name of the hard disk drive inside the Installed under ‘Disk Drives’ (the name list in the figure may differ from your hard disk drive).

  • Page 20: Software Installation For Windows Xp

    PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2. Ensure the PCMCIA interface cable and then the external power connections (if you are using the external power) are made as described in Hardware Installation. Slowly insert the PC Card of interface cable into the PCMCIA socket of computer and press firmly until the connector is seated (Please note that the PC Card is keyed to guide for proper insertion).
  • Page 21 6. If the hard disk drive inside the kit is a whole new disk drive that doesn’t contain any partition, you can’t read/write data from/to it, please refer to the ‘Partition the External Hard Disk’ chapter, to prepare your hard disk drive. Installed Device Drivers...

  • Page 22: Software Installation For Windows Nt

    NT. This kind of program will help Windows NT to assign resource for PCMCIA device properly, and reduce the conflict situation. 1. Do not connect the external hard disk to computer, just power-on the computer and boot into Windows. 2. Click on Start ! Settings ! Control Panel ! SCSI Adapter.
  • Page 23 (Please note that the PC Card is keyed to guide for proper insertion). 8. Power-on the computer, after boot into Windows, the external hard disk will be assigned a drive letter in ‘My Computer’, the drive is ready for use.

  • Page 24: Software Installation For Dos/Windows 3.1

    SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.1 Automatic Installation Follow the instructions below to proceed with automatic installation. 1. Insert the device driver diskette into a floppy disk drive on your computer. 2. Change the working directory to the floppy drive containing the device driver diskette by typing A: then press ENTER.
  • Page 25 I/O ports, and the valid numbers are 320, 340, and 360. Note: If your CONFIG.SYS file is already loaded with PCMCIA software, such as Cardsoft of SystemSoft or Cardtalk of Databook, it is necessary to add the above line after the PCMCIA software.

  • Page 26: Using Hard Disk With Pcmcia Interface

    And then attach the external power to the outlet. 5. Slowly insert the PC Card of interface cable into the PCMCIA socket of computer and press firmly until the connector is seated. Your external hard disk is now ready for use in few seconds.
  • Page 27 2. Click ‘Stop PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6)’ in the dialog box. 3. Wait for few seconds until the system prompts ‘The PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6) can now be safely removed from the system’. Click OK, and then remove the PC Card of the cable from computer.
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  • Page 29: Advanced Usage

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  • Page 30: Partition The External Hard Disk

    FDISK is your internal hard disk, if you don’t change it to the external hard disk, the data of your internal hard disk will be destroyed. Note: If the option 5 doesn’t appear on this screen means the external hard disk is not installed properly, please check with the software installation.
  • Page 31 8. Now you can create (type 1) or delete (type 3) the partition of the external hard disk. 9. After you finish FDISK, re-boot computer to activate these changes.

  • Page 32: Using Disk Management Under Windows 2000/Xp

    Find out the largest number of Disk #, for example, on the below picture, Disk 1 is the largest number, and it is the external hard disk. On the right side of the Disk 1 is the status of the partitions of this disk drive, you can create a new or delete an exist partition by right-click on this area.
  • Page 33 Wait for few seconds, the type of the hard disk drive will be changed to ‘Basic’ type. 4. To create a new partition in the external hard disk, right-click on the right area of Disk 1, click on ‘Create Partition…’, the ‘Create Partition Wizard’ appears, click Next.
  • Page 34 Make sure the status of the partition is ‘Healthy’. 10. Now, a partition is created in the external hard disk, you can write data to it, and if you want, one or more partitions can be created in the same hard disk drive, just repeat the above steps.

  • Page 35: Change The Drive Letter Assigned To Hdd

    CHANGE THE DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNED TO HDD To change the drive letter for the external hard disk under Windows 98SE or Me, for example, from drive ‘D’ to drive ‘E’, follow the instructions below. 1. Open ‘Control Panel’, then ‘System’, click on ‘Device Manager’ tab, double click on ‘Disk Drives’, select the model of the external hard disk, then click on ‘Properties’...
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