BUSlink CipherShield manual

USB Cipher Shield™ Hard Drive Series with AES USB Hi-Speed Encrypted Har d Drive User ’ s Manual For W indows XP , V ista, 7 For MAC OS X 10.2.8 or higher Revision 3.3[...]

2 W elcome to BUSlink® USB Hi-Speed Cipher Shield™ Series with AES Hard Drive User Guide Congratulations on your purchase of a BUSlink product. Please read through these operating instructions. After you fi nish, put them away in a safe place for future reference. Also save the box in case you need to return the product for repair . Introductio[...]

3 System Requirements PC • A vailable USB Hi-Speed port • Microsoft W indows® XP/V ista (3TB or larger drive require W indows V ista or higher) MAC • PowerMac G4 processor or higher (3TB or larger drive require Intel CPU Mac) • A vailable USB Hi-Speed port • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher Note: Speci fi cation subject to change without notice [...]

4 Bddftt Bddftt Qpxfs Qpxfs Lfz!Uzqf Lfz!Uzqf Lfz!Tubuvt Lfz!Tubuvt Lfz!tpdlfu Lfz!tpdlfu Front Panel Regular Model Dual Drive Model Bilateral/Colateral Model • The Cipher Key™ can be hot plugged. After you plug in the key , the Key Status should be green. If Key Status is red, unplug the key . W ait about 20s. and replug the key again. If that[...]

5 PC Installing Using PC USB Hi-Speed Port Overview Before plugging in the drive, make sure your computer system have a USB Hi-Speed port available. Windows Setup 1. Start up the computer and boot into W indows. 2. Normally your machine will be ready to install new hardware. However, if you are using Windows XP/V ista and are unable to install new [...]

6 V erifying Installation 1. After the driver setup has completed, check for proper installation. T o do this, go to My Computer . Double click on My Computer on the desktop. If you cannot fi nd on desktop, click on Start and click on My Computer . Make sure that there is a new hard drive and drive letter listed. 2. Congratulations! Y our drive is[...]

7 PC Operating Instructions • NOTE: In order to make sure that W indows fi nishes writing all the data that is pending to the drive, be sure to follow safe removal procedures to avoid losing data or crashing W indows. Windows XP/V ista: First left click on the eject icon , then select Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device - Drive(I:) (where I: i[...]

8 If the computer fails to respond or give the message “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now .” , try one more time. If unsuccessful again, shut down the computer before removing the device. • Do not unplug the device when the system is in the middle of transferring data, the yellow access light at the right front side [...]

9 PC Partitioning / Formatting Instructions Y our drive is preformatted with NTFS partition; it is ready to be used in a PC. NTFS is usable in Windows XP/ V ista. If you ever found a need to reformat the drive, make sure you follow these instructions. Caution! Backup you data fi rst. Partitioning and formatting wipes out all data from hard drive. [...]

10 Macintosh Installing Using MAC USB Hi-Speed Port Older Macintosh model does not come with USB Hi-Speed port. Y ou will need to purchase a USB Hi-Speed PCI card for desktop or CARDBUS card for notebook. At present only OS X 10.2.8 and higher, supports USB Hi- Speed. Older Mac OS only supports USB 1.1. W ithout the right hardware and software driv[...]

11 MAC Formatting Instructions The drive is preformatted with F A T32 partition; it is ready to be used in a Macintosh and PC. If you do not need compatibility with PC, it is recommended that you reformat the drive into MAC native format before use. If you need to reformat your hard drive, you need to run the Disk Utility software located in the Ap[...]

12 6. Click Erase to con fi rm. 7. Disk Utility will start formatting the drive. Y ou can see the progress bar at the bottom of the window . The blue bar indicates the progress. Once it go all the way to the right, the format is done. 8. After it’ s done, you can quit the utility . Handling and Care of Drive / W arning This drive is an electroni[...]

13 Frequently Asked Questions Cipher Shield™ F AQ Q: What is Cipher Shield™? Cipher Shield™ is our solution to the increasing security concern of keeping your important data on the hard drive private and secure. W e uses NIST approved encryption algorithm to encrypt the data on the Cipher Shield drive secure. The secret key to encrypt and dec[...]

14 Q: Should I update my driver? Y es, it is a good idea to always keep your driver up to date. Regularly check our website at www.buslink.com for driver update. It is also a good idea to check Microsoft’ s W indows Update website at http://windowsupdate. microsoft.com for update to USB driver . Q: Why do W indows keep asking for driver when I pl[...]

15 Support F AQ Q: My warranty is expiring very soon. What should I do? 1. Read and follow the warranty statement in Product and Service Information section toward the back of the manual. 2. Call us for RMA number right away . W e will reject any unit sent to us without RMA number shown clearly outside the box. 3. Make sure you have enclosed a copy[...]

16 T rademarks Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands or product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Disclaimer BUSlink shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, per[...]

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19 For Europe This product is in conformity with the EMC directive. T ested T o Comply W ith FCC Standar ds FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, in[...]

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