Samsung G2 Portable manual

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G2 Portable External Hard Drive 2 Read Me First About this Manual Y our product comes with a quick start guide and a user’ s manual. Following the instructions and precautions of this manual will ensure easier and more enjoyable use of your G2 Portable External Hard Drive. Quick Start Guide A start guide is provided with the purchase of G2 Portab[...]

Handling Pr ecautions User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 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 . This may damage [...]

Magnets Magnetic objects can cause various types of damage to the HDD, including data damage. Keep magnets and magnetic objects away from the external drive. 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 remo[...]

Read Me First T able of Contents User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 5 2 About this Manual 2 Quick Installation Guide 2 User’ s Manual 2 Using this Manual Specifications 7 System Requirements 7 Components 7 Overview 8 Installation 9 Windows Connecting your G2 Portable Using your G2 Portable 11 Copying/Moving Files 11 Removable Disk Me[...]

Intr oduction User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 6 The G2 Portable External Hard Drive is a high-performance external hard drive that supports USB. Unlike conventional desktop disk drives, the G2 Portable External Hard Drive makes it possible for you to instantaneously add greater storage capacity to your system without ha ving to take[...]

Specifications User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 7 Catego r y 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. Interface T ransfer Ra te Power Operating System Hard Disk Capacity Dimensions (W x H x [...]

Connecting your G2 Portable User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 8 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: Y our G2 Portable External Hard Drive will automatically activate once connect[...]

G2 Portable External Hard Drive 9 Windows When you connect the G2 Portable External Hard Drive to the computer a device 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 3. System T ray indicating an e xternal device Fi[...]

Macintosh Connect your G2 Portable External Hard Drive to the computer . Y our Macintosh operating system will then generate a SAMSUNG. Figure 5. Macintosh External HDD connection icon Figure 6. Macintosh Folders After clicking the SAMSUNG icon, the following f older will appear . Y ou are now ready to use the Samsung G2 Portable External Hard Driv[...]

Using your G2 Portable User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 11 Now that you h ave successfully installed your new G2 Portable External Hard Drive, you copy or move files or whole folders from your new G2 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 e[...]

User’s Manual Figure 8. When you Right-Click on a file or folder , you get another menu. Figure 9. Using a Right-Click again, we can paste the T emp file onto the G2 drive . From the Windows Explorer screen: Click Local Disk C From the right-hand pane: Right-click the T emp f older  Click Copy G2 Portable External Hard Drive 12 1) From this si[...]

G2 Portable External Hard Drive 13 Safely Removing your G2 Portable Click “Safely Remove Hardware.” Figure 10. The taskbar is located at the bottom-right of the screen. User’s Manual Click “Samsung S-line G2 Portable USB device”. When you see the “Safely Remove Hardware” message, you may safely remove the device from the system. For W[...]

For Macintosh Click the external hard drive icon and select [ Eject “SAMSUNG.” ] Figure 13. 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 G2 Portable External Hard Drive’ s USB cable from the computer while file t[...]

G2 Portable Softwar e User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 15 Samsung G2 Portable External Hard Drive comes with Samsung Auto Backup and Samsung SecretZone™. These applications support the Windows only . Connecting your G2 Portable External Hard Drive to the computer will automatically activate the installation wizard. Select “Instal[...]

User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 16 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 reg[...]

User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 17 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 the[...]

Figure 14. Samsung Auto Back Screen Figure 15. Bac kup Destination Selection Dialog Designate the path to the backup device and then click “Next.” G2 Portable External Hard Drive 18 User’s Manual[...]

Figure 16. Optional Settings Dialog Figure 17. 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[...]

Figure 18. Bac kup Scheduling Dialog Figure 19. 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[...]

Figure 20. Initial Application Screen Figure 21. System T ray Figure 22. 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 [...]

Figure 23. Original File Selection Scr een – Manual Backup Figure 24. Bac kup Completion Dialog Select “Backup” from the “T ask” menu or click “Backup” from the toolbar . G2 Portable External Hard Drive 22 User’s Manual[...]

Figure 25. Original File Selection Scr een – Quick Backup Figure 26. Bac kup Completion Dialog G2 Portable External Hard Drive 23 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 [...]

Figure 27. Restor e Selection Screen G2 Portable External Hard Drive 24 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) [...]

Figure 28. Restor e Selection Screen Figure 29. Restor e Options Screen G2 Portable External Hard Drive 25 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 fol[...]

Figure 30. File Filter Scr een Figure 31. Restor e Completion Screen G2 Portable External Hard Drive 26 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 ?[...]

G2 Portable External Hard Drive 27 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™ 1. Y ou will see the following dialog the first time you connect y[...]

G2 Portable External Hard Drive 28 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[...]

G2 Portable External Hard Drive 29 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[...]

T r oubleshooting User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 30 Check the USB cable connection. Check the LED light on the HDD. Check the power supply to G2 Portable 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 tra[...]

Appendix User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 31 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 &[...]

Reformat to NTFS User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 32 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 [...]

User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 33 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 [...]

W arranty Information User’s Manual G2 Portable External Hard Drive 34 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[...]

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