User manual SEAGATE PERSONAL STORAGE 3100 INSTALLATION

[. . . ] Close all windows and shutdown your PC 7. Connect the Personal Storage 3100 to your PC and reboot. Hardware ­ Installation: Personal Storage 3100 Installation To connect your new Maxtor personal storage 3100 to your computer, please follow these simple steps. If these steps are not performed in order, the Personal Storage 3100 may not function properly. Windows 98SE Additional drivers are required to use the Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 with Windows 98SE. These drivers can be downloaded from: www. maxsupportPS3100. com NOTE: The software drivers MUST be installed prior to connecting the Personal Storage 3100 to your Windows PC. [. . . ] Double-click Disk Management (located under the Storage icon). Figure 2 - Connecting USB Data Cable Connections Disconnecting the Personal Storage 3100 1. Right-click on the Windows Unplug or Eject Hardware icon in your System Tray located at the bottom right order of your screen 2. Unplug the male connector from the power cord in your electrical wall outlet 3. Unplug the smaller end of the USB cable in the USB connection of the Personal Storage 3100 www. maxsupportPS3100. com Personal Storage 3100 Installation Guide 5. To format into two or more logical partitions, use the partitioning feature in the Disk Management utility. For more information, press F1 to access Help and enter partition in the keyword field. Right-click on the icon for your new drive in the window that appears. FAT32 should be listed in the column labeled File System. Click OK when you are ready to format your drive. Formatting time varies based on your system speed, the interface used, and the drive's capacity. The System Properties dialog box appears. 98SE and Me: Select the Device Manager tab. 2000 or XP: Select the Hardware tab and then click Device Manager. · Double-click the entry for the Universal Serial Bus Controller. If using Windows 2000/XP: Have you installed the latest Microsoft Service Pack?The most current Service Pack(s) contain drivers that assist with the recognition of USB devices. Go to www. microsoft. com for more information. Have you run Diagnostic Utilities for the Personal Storage 3100?File Name: PS3100_DIAG. EXE File Download Size: 500 KB File Version: 1. 0 Compatible Operating Systems: Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP Click on the link for "Download Personal Storage 3100 Diagnostic Utility". Download and extract PS3100_DIAG. EXE to the computer to which you connect the Personal Storage to. Maxtor suggests that you extract the file to the C:\> drive. Browse to the C:\PS3100_Diag folder and double-click on the 3100_diagnostic. exe file. [. . . ] If the word, Pass is displayed, the drive is functional and no defects were found; if an error code is generated, please contact Maxtor for further assistance. My computer shows less drive capacity than on the box label. Hard drive capacity is defined in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity. In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to one million bytes and one gigabyte (GB) is equal to one billion bytes. [. . . ]