---------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for installing for the USB 2.0 Storage System ---------------------------------------------------------- Your USB 2.0 Storage System has been designed to be easy to use and install. This guide has been provided to help you correctly install the necessary drivers. *************************************************************************** * 1. Make sure that the IDE/ATAPI device is setting in the Master mode. * * 2. External power supply is required if bus power is not enough to * * support the device. * *************************************************************************** 1. PC USERS Your USB 2.0 Storage System is compatible with any PC running Windows 98/98SE /ME and Windows 2000/XP* that has a USB 2.0 port. Also can plug to USB v1.1 port, but it only have USB v1.1 performance. It installs with the normal Plug and Play process: 1) Make sure that the USB 2.0 Storage System is plugged into a wall outlet and is powered up. 2) Place the "DRIVERS" CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3) Plug the USB 2.0 cable into the PC. 4) Windows will find the new hardware. 5) When Windows asks where to find the new driver, please select G:\ISD\USB (G:\ is the letter of your CD-ROM driver) then click next. 6) Windows will find and locate the drivers from the disk and assign the next available letter to the device. The drivers are now loaded. If the storage device in your USB 2.0 Storage System is a hard disk, you must now partition and format the drive. This is done through the use of the DOS utility FDISK. See your Windows documentation if you are unfamiliar with FDISK. Note that you must run FDISK before you try to format the drive and that you must run FDISK in a DOS window while Windows is running. * NOTE:This driver is not WHQL certified for WinXP. 2. Macintosh Users Your USB 2.0 Storage System is compatible with any Mac running Mac OS 8.6/9.0/ 9.10 and having a USB port. Here is how you install the drivers: 1) Place the CD-ROM you received with the USB 2.0 Storage System in your CD-ROM drive. There is a program in the CD, G:\ISD\USB\MACOS\2.0\Install ISD Storage Driver.(G:\ is the letter of your CD-ROM driver) 2) Double click on the "Install ISD Storage Driver" icon. 3) When the installer is finished. Restart your computer at this time. 4) When the computer is rebooted, power up the USB 2.0 Storage System and connect a USB 2.0 cable between the USB 2.0 Storage System and the computer. You can either connect to the computer directly or through a USB 2.0 hub. 5) If everything is installed correctly, you will see a new icon on the desktop that corresponds to the USB 2.0 Storage System. The drives for your USB 2.0 Storage System are now installed. You now need to initialize the media in the drive. To format your media: 1) Highlight the icon for the USB 2.0 Storage System. 2) From the Finder menu located at the top of the screen, select Special, Erase Disk. You can select either DOS or Macintosh formatting. If you intend to use the device on both a PC and a Mac, select Dos formatting.