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    [ R 2 - J B O D ] External Enclosure User Manual  Include Hardwar e Installation Guide HDD Formatting Guide Thank you for pur chasing a quality Rosewill Pr oduct. Please regis ter your product at : www .r osewill.com/ for complete warranty inf ormation and future support for your product.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 1 Har dwar e Installation Guide z Please follow the instructions and make sur e your hard drive is successfully installed to the exter nal enclosur e! STEP1: Release the 4 scr ews then pull out the rear panel and tray .[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 2 STEP2: Place the first HDD into the tray . Push the HDD to connect e SA T A connector . th STEP3: Place the second HDD into the tray . Push the HDD to connect the SA T A connector . Note: Make sure all connect ors are connected well.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 3 STEP4: Scr ew the HDD on the tray both sides. STEP5: Push the tray into the aluminum case. Scr ew the r ear panel and enclosur e together .[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 4 HDD Formatting Guide This device can support JBOD& BIG Mode. JBOD ： It enables each har d drive to be seen separately as single drives, showing 2 HDD capacities. Note: Backup befor e formatting your HDD. JBOD Mode: STEP1: Right-click on “My Computer” icon and select t[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 5 STEP2: Select “Disk Management” and you will see your har d drives show “Unallocated”. Sample ： 750GB & 250GB hard drives. STEP3: Please r efer to page 9.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 6 BIG: It concatenates a series of physical har d drives as a single lar ge volume; har d drive A and B are combined into a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical har d drives A and B. It is also possible to cr eate a BIG volume using only a single hard[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 7 STEP1: Right -click “My Computer” icon and select the “Manage” column. STEP2: T wo brand-new HDD Select “Disk Management” and you will see your Exter nal HDD shows “Not Initialized”.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 8 T wo formatted HDDs (These two HDDs have to be combined into one disk. ) Select “Disk Management” and you will see your Exter nal HDD only shows one HDD, another shows “Unallocated”. Right-click the r ed-squared block and select “Delete Partition”. Delete both HDDs?[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 9 STEP3: Right-click the r ed-squared block and select “Initialize Disk”. STEP4: Pr ess “OK” button to initialize HDD.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 10 STEP5: The exter nal HDD will be showed “Online”. Right-click the “Unallocated” block and select “New Partition”. STEP6: The “New Partition Wizar d” will appear . Please follow the instruction of the wizar d to complete the partition.[...]

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    External enclosure Installation [ R 2 - J B O D ] U s e r M a n u a l 11 STEP7: When new partition is completed, the exter nal HDD will be r ecognized as a “New V olume”. If you divided HDD into two partitions, format two partitions separately . After two partitions ar e formatted completely , you will see two healthy HDDs.[...]