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Fantom Drives GD2000Q manual

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    3-23-2011 GD1DQ-GDM Rev C The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this document to assure its accuracy , Fantom Drives and Fantom Drives assume no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this document, or from the use of the [...]

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    Contents Introduction ............................................................ 3 Parts & Accessories List .......................................... 4 System Requirements ............................................. 5 FireW ire and USB 2.0 Compared .............................. 6 Fantom Drives External Hard Drive at a Glance .......... 7 [...]

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    18 3 Introduction W elcome, and thank you for purchasing GreenDrive Quad Interface Hard Disk from Fantom Drives. In photos and illustrations in this guide, The following aler t symbols are used in this guide: This signifies impor tant information for ALL users. This signifies impor tant infor - mation for USB 2.0 users. Thi s sig nif ies important [...]

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    4 17 Parts & Accessories List The package contains the following items: • Fantom Drives GreenDrive Quad Hard Disk • Quick Star t Installation Guide • FireWire 400 cable • FireWire 800 cable • eSA T A cable • USB cable • Disk Stand • AC Adapter If you are missing any items listed above, please fill out the customer suppor t form [...]

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    16 5 Q: Does the drive work with Norton Ghost/my disk imaging software? A: Y es. Norton Ghost 2003 or newer suppor t USB drives. Fantom Drives does not provide any additional drivers. Q: I fo rm at te d m y h ar d d is k un de r Wi nd ow s X P , bu t m y V i st a /7 ma ch in e d oe s n o t a ll ow me t o de le te or mo d if y f il es on t he d ri v[...]

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    6 15 FAQs for Mac Users: Q: Why is my drive asking me to format it? It was already formatted and it contains data. A1:Run a disk repair utility on the drive. A2:Perform permission repair on your system drive. Open the disk utility (located in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility .app.) Select your system drive (usually the first disk listed) and cl[...]

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    14 7 T r oubleshooting General Questions Q: I bought a 500GB drive, but my computer is showing 465GB. Where is the missing capacity? A: Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity . In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, and one Gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes. Many operat[...]

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    Formatting the drive in Mac OS X 1. Launch the “Disk Utility” application located under Applications/ Utilities folder . 2. Highlight your new drive and select the “Par tition” tab 3. Select the new par tition map type. 4. For each par tition in the volume scheme, select the desired file system format and volume name (optional) The recommen[...]

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    12 9 Optimizing W indows Caching Algorithm By default, Windows XP optimizes caching for per formance on external drives. Vista optimizes caching for quick removal. As a result, W indows XP appears to have faster access to external disks but at a greater risk of data corruption and loss. T o change Windows' caching algorithm, open the disk mana[...]

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    10 11 Formatting the Drive in W indows 2000/XP/2003/V ista 1. Open the disk management console, located at Windows System32diskmgmt.msc on your system drive. A list of the attached drives and their respective volumes will appear . Select the Fantom Drives GreenDrive Quad Disk. 2. Right-click on a GreenDrive Quad volume. If it’ s not initialize[...]