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Samsung S Series S2-500 manual

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    S-Series Exter nal Har d Driv e User’ s manua l S1 Mini HXSU012BA HX-SU012BA HXSU016BA HX-SU016BA HX-SU020BA HX-SU025BA S2 Portable S2 Portable 3.0 HX-MT A25DA HX-MT A32DA HX-MT A50DA HX-MT A64DA HXMU016DA HX-MU016DA HXMU025DA HX-MU025DA HXMU032DA HX-MU032DA HXMU050DA HX-MU050DA HX-MU064DA HX-MU075DA HX-MU010EA HX-MUT75DA[...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 2 Read Me First Software and user ’s manuals are available for download at the Samsung Hard Drive website (www .samsunghdd.com). The content of this User ’s Manual may change without prior notice for product improvement purposes. About this Manual Y our product comes with a quick start guide and a user’ s manual. [...]

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    Handling Pr ecautions User’s Manual 3 The following information ser ves to ensure user’ s safety and prevent damage to user’ s properties. Carefully read the information provided and use your product correctly . Data Cable Usage Shock Do not unplug the data cable by severely pulling the cable . T his may damage connector on the product and ma[...]

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    User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 4 Magnets Disassembly and Label Remov al For repair , please visit the designated (samsung) customer ser vice center . Unauthorized disassembly , repair , or ref orm of the product and unauthorized removal of the labeling will void your warranty . Safely Remove Hardw are Always use the Safely Remove Hard[...]

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    Read Me First T able of Contents User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 5 2 About this Manual 2 Quick Installation Guide 2 User’ s Manual 2 Using this Manual Specifications 6 Introduction 7 S1 Mini / S2 Portable 8 S2 Portable 3.0 9 Installation 11 Windows Connecting your S-Series Using your S-Series 13 Copying / Moving Files 13 Removable Di[...]

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    Intr oduction User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 6 The S-Series External Hard Drive is a high-performance external hard drive that supports USB. Unlike conventional desktop disk drives, the S-Series External Hard Drive makes it possible for you to instantaneously add greater storage capacity to your system without ha ving to take the comp[...]

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    Specifications (S1 Mini / S2 Portable) User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 7 Over view Some computers supply limited USB bus power . If your drive doesn't power on after connecting the USB cable, you may need to purchase a USB Y -cable from retailers or online shops. LED USB Port Ref. LED Description 160GB / 250GB / 320GB / 500GB / 64[...]

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    Specifications (S2 Portable 3.0) User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 8 Over view Some computers supply limited USB bus power . If your drive doesn't power on after connecting the USB cable, you may need to purchase a USB Y -cable from retailers or online shops. LED USB 3.0 Port Ref. LED Description 250GB / 320GB / 500GB / 640GB (82mm [...]

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    Connecting your S1 Mini / S2 Portable User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 9 Installation Verify that the computer meets the minimum system requirements as outlined in #System Requirements. Insert the USB cable to the desktop/laptop computer as shown in Figures 1 and 2: Figure 1. Connecting to a Desktop Computer Figure 2. Connecting to a La[...]

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    Connecting your S2 Portable 3.0 User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 10 Installation Verify that the computer meets the minimum system requirements as outlined in #System Requirements. Insert the USB cable to the desktop/laptop computer as shown in Figures 3 and 4: Figure 3. Connecting to a Desktop Computer Figure 4. Connecting to a Laptop [...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 11 Windows When you connect the S-Series External Hard Drive to the computer a small icon will appear in the system tray at the lower right corner of the screen. The operating system will recognize and display "Samsung” drive under “My Computer .” Figure 5. System T ray indicating an e xternal device Figure 6[...]

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    Macintosh Connect your S-Series External Hard Drive to the computer . Y our Macintosh operating system will then generate a SAMSUNG. Figure 7. Macintosh External HDD connection icon Figure 8. Macintosh Folders After clicking the SAMSUNG icon, the following f older will appear . Y ou are now ready to use the Samsung S-Series External Hard Drive. (So[...]

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    Using your S-Series User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 13 Now that you h ave successfully installed your new S-Series External Hard Drive, you copy or move files or whole folders from your new S-Series to your computer and vice-versa. Stop & Read Remov able Disk Method For the purposes of this manual, we will make a copy of the T emp [...]

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    User’s Manual Figure 10. When you Right-Click on a file or folder , you get another menu. Figure 11. Using a Right-Click again, we can paste the T emp file onto the S-Series drive . From the Windows Explorer screen: Click Local Disk C From the right-hand pane: Right-click the T emp f older  Click Copy S-Series External Hard Drive 14 1) From th[...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 15 Safely Removing your S-Series Click “Safely Remove Hardware.” Figure 12. The taskbar is located at the bottom-right of the screen. User’s Manual When you see the “Safely Remove Hardware” message, you may safely remove the device from the system. For Windows Right-click the arrow icon from the system tray at[...]

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    For Macintosh Click the external hard drive icon and select “Eject “SAMSUNG.”” Figure 15. For the Macintosh clic k the USB icon and choose Eject "SAMSUNG" This safely disconnects the drive. It is now safe to detach the drive from the computer . Do not disconnect S-Series External Hard Drive’ s USB cable from the computer while f[...]

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    S-Series Softwar e User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 17 Samsung S-Series External Hard Drive comes with Samsung Auto Backup and Samsung SecretZone™. These applications support the Windows only . Connecting your S-Series External Hard Drive to the computer will automatically activate the installation wizard. Select “Install Samsung T [...]

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    User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 18 5. Click “Next.” 6. The dialog will display the end user license agreement. Carefully read the agreement. Select “yes”. 7. Select the destination f or Samsung Auto Backup installation and then click “Next.” 8. Select the folder under which you wish the Samsung Auto Backup icon to be regist[...]

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    User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 19 9. The dialog will then display the installation progress. 10. Once the installation process is complete, a dialog requesting your decision on whether to reboot now or later will prompt. Click “Finish” to exit the installation wizard. Select “Y es, I want to restart my computer now” and then e[...]

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    Figure 16. Samsung Auto Back Screen Figure 17. Bac kup Destination Selection Dialog Designate the path to the backup device and then click “Next.” S-Series External Hard Drive 20 User’s Manual[...]

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    Figure 18. Optional Settings Dialog Figure 19. File Filter Configur ation Dialog From the File Filter Configuration dialog, you will be a ble to select types of files you wish to backup and you wish to be excluded from the backup process.Y ou can define these files by grouping or by specific file extensions. For file groups, the application provide[...]

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    Figure 20. Bac kup Scheduling Dialog Figure 21. New Sc hedule Dialog Select how often and when you wish Auto Backup to be performed and then click “OK.” From the Backup Scheduling dialog, click “Finish” to exit the backup configura tion wizard. Y ou are now ready to backup your data. Samsung Auto Backup is configured to perform real time ba[...]

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    Figure 22. Initial Application Screen Figure 23. System T ray Figure 24. System T ray Once you have successfully configured Auto Backup, a new icon will appear on your system tray . In this icon, the red section of the bar indicates the amount of stora ge device space used and the green section indicates the amount of space available. Double-click [...]

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    Figure 25. Original File Selection Scr een – Manual Backup Figure 26. Bac kup Completion Dialog Select “Backup” from the “T ask” menu or click “Backup” from the toolbar . S-Series External Hard Drive 24 User’s Manual[...]

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    Figure 27. Original File Selection Scr een – Quick Backup Figure 28. Bac kup Completion Dialog S-Series External Hard Drive 25 User’s Manual Quick Backup Select file(s) and/or folder(s) you wish to back up. Right-click on your selection and then select “Quick Backup” from the context menu. Quick Backup will only function with the backup dev[...]

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    Figure 29. Restor e Selection Screen S-Series External Hard Drive 26 User’s Manual Restoring Backup Data Y ou can restore your backup data using Samsung Auto Backup. T o restore your backup data using Samsung Auto Backup, you will need to launch the restore wizard. There are three ways of doing this. First, select the file(s) and/or folder(s) you[...]

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    Figure 30. Restor e Selection Screen Figure 31. Restor e Options Screen S-Series External Hard Drive 27 User’s Manual Restore wizard’ s first screen will prompt you to select the restore backup file destination. There are two options available to you, which are: Restore backup files to their original folder or Designate a new destination folder[...]

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    Figure 32. File Filter Scr een Figure 33. Restor e Completion Screen S-Series External Hard Drive 28 User’s Manual Restore file filter wizard lets you designate the types of files you wish to restore. Designate the types of file extensions and/or file groups you wish to restore or exclude from restoring and then click “Finish.” Clicking “Fi[...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 29 User’s Manual Samsung SecretZone™ is an information privacy software application operating in the Windows environment. Samsung SecretZone™ enables you to save and protect important and private data from others with ease. Samsung SecretZone™ Samsung SecretZone™ Installation 1.Y ou will see the following dial[...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 30 User’s Manual 6. Y ou will then be asked to enter an administrator password. Enter the password and then click “Next” to continue. 7. Click “Finish” to complete the installa tion process. 1. Click “Browse” and designa te the file you wish to create. 2. Designate the name and size of the volume ima ge yo[...]

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    S-Series External Hard Drive 31 User’s Manual 3. Designate the drive to connect with, the file system, label, accessibility , and idle session limit. 4. Designate the volume’ s password and algorithm. 5. V erify your virtual image settings. 6. If the settings are correct, click “Finish” to generate the volume image. Y ou’ve now created a [...]

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    T r oubleshooting User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 32 Check the USB cable connection. Check the LED light on the HDD. Check the power supply to S-Series External Hard Drive.  Ticking noise is an indication of insufficient power . If the drive is not being recognized, tr y plugging it into a different USB port. F AQ Q1. File transfer [...]

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    Appendix User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 33 Reformat to F A T32 Reformat to NTFS Reformat in Macintosh W ARNING – PAR TITIONING AND FORMA TTING YOUR DRIVE WILL PERMANENTL Y ERASE ALL THE FILES ON THE DRIVE. DO NOT A TTEMPT TO DO THIS UNLESS ALL OF YOUR FILES HA VE BEEN BACKED UP AND CHECKED FOR RELIABILITY AND READABILITY . Stop &[...]

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    Reformat to NTFS User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 34 W ARNING – PAR TITIONING AND FORMA TTING YOUR DRIVE WILL PERMANENTL Y ERASE ALL THE FILES ON THE DRIVE. DO NOT A TTEMPT TO DO THIS UNLESS ALL OF YOUR FILES HA VE BEEN BACKED UP AND CHECKED FOR RELIABILITY AND READABILITY . Stop & Read Format in Macintosh F ollowing describes for[...]

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    User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 35 Product Certifications FCC CAUTION : Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the part responsible for compliance could void the user’ s authority to operate the equipment. Note : This equipment has been tested and found to compl y with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to [...]

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    W arranty Information User’s Manual S-Series External Hard Drive 36 Limited Warr anty W arranty Period The warranty period for product is three (3) years from the documented date of purchase from Samsung or a Samsung’ authorized reseller . Customer Ser vice T o request warranty ser vice, please contact the place of purchase, or visit our web si[...]

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    Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. STORAGE SYSTEM DIVISION HEAD OFFICE: 416, MAETAN-3 DONG, YEONGTONG-GU, SUWON SI, GYEONGGI-DO, KOREA, 443-742 F AX : 82-54-479-5567 Copyright Samsung Electronics reserves all copyrights to the content of this manual. Copyright laws prohibit reproduction of this manual in part or whole by any third party without the expl[...]