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USB 2.0
3.5" External Hard Disk Drive
System Requirements
♦ Notebook or Desktop PC with USB2.0 or USB1.1 port.
♦ Windows 98SE/Me/2000, or Windows XP (Make sure the device driver for USB Host controller
has been installed and is available).
♦ Mac OS9.x or above.
NOTE:
♦ USB2.0 host supports 480Mbps (maximum) data transfer rate, USB1.1 host only supports
12Mbps (maximum) data transfer rate. Check your system to make sure you have the right
hardware to gain maximum performance.
♦ When using this external drive with USB interface under Macintosh system, only USB1.1
function can be supported.
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Table of Contents
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Summary of Contents for Argosy HD 360U
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Page 1: System Requirements
USB 2.0 3.5” External Hard Disk Drive System Requirements ♦ Notebook or Desktop PC with USB2.0 or USB1.1 port. ♦ Windows 98SE/Me/2000, or Windows XP (Make sure the device driver for USB Host controller has been installed and is available). ♦... -
Page 2: Part Names And Functions
Part Names and Functions 1. LED: Power-on and Data-access indicator. 2. Power Switch: Power-on and Power-off. 3. USB2.0 Interface Connector: This connector connects to the USB2.0 interface cable. 4. External Power Jack: This jack connects to the AC adapter. 5. Kensington Lock Connector (Optional). FRONT REAR... -
Page 3: Hardware Installation
Hardware Installation Cable Connection 1. Insert the plug of the USB interface cable into the Interface Connector (see the figure). 2. Insert the plug of AC adapter into the External Power Jack of drive. 3. Attach the AC adapter to the outlet. 4. - Page 4 How To Assemble Hard Disk Drive Into The Hard Disk Kit Follow the sequence in figure, Loading the drive into case, notice at the tray alignment. attach the IDE and Power cables to disk drive, and then fix the PCB and drive with screws.
- Page 5 How To Disassemble Hard Disk Drive From The Hard Disk Kit Release the screws on stand to Pull out the drive from case about separate the stand, case and drive. 4cm, be careful, don’t break the LED cable. Pull out the cable of LED from the Pull out the drive from case.
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Page 6: Software Installation
2. On the left part of welcome screen, click “Install Device Driver”. On the right part, scroll the screen to “HD 360U”, and then click “USB 2.0 Driver for Windows 98SE”. 3. Click “Install” on the next screen. When a “File Download” dialog prompts “Would you like to open the file or save it to your computer?”, click “Open”... - Page 7 5. When the program prompts “You must reboot the system to make this setup effective”, click OK and then Finish to restart computer. 6. After the computer is restart and boot into Windows system, insert the USB interface cable into computer, the external hard disk drive will be recognized automatically.
- Page 8 Partition The External Hard Disk Drive Using FDISK Under Windows 98SE/Me FDISK is a program to create one or more partitions of the hard disk, after the partition was built and formatted, data can be write to the hard disk. To partition the external hard disk, you must execute FDISK under the MS-DOS mode under Windows 98SE/Me, please follow the steps: Boot-up the computer into Windows 98SE/Me system.
- Page 9 In the ‘Change Current Fixed Disk Drive’ screen, type the disk drive number that assigned to the external hard disk (usually, the external hard disk is the fixed disk drive number 2). Back to ‘FDISK OPTIONS’ screen, type 4 to display the content of the fixed disk drive, check the content to make sure the current drive is the external hard disk.
- Page 10 Note: If the hard disk in the external hard disk kit is a whole new hard disk without any partition, when the Disk Management is opened, a ‘Stop’ mark indicates this drive is an ‘Unknown’ type of disk (refer to the figure shown on right side). In this situation, Windows system won’t allow you to create partition with this drive.
- Page 11 Refer to the figure shown below, select ‘Format this partition with the following settings’, choose the File system, and specify a name for the Volume label, select ‘Perform a Quick Format’, then, click Next. Click Finish, now the formatting is proceed, after the process is done, the ‘Disk Management’ window is changed as below.
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