User manual MEDION EXTERNAL 250 GB HDD MD 90046

[. . . ] User Guide External Hard Disk with USB 1. 1/2. 0 connection Copyright © 2005 All rights reserved. Trademarks: MS-DOS® and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft®. Pentium® is a registered trademark of Intel®. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This manual is protected by Copyright. We reserve the right to make technical changes. Contents: Safety instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The operating indicator (blue diode) will light up as soon as the hard drive is connected to a source of electricity. With Windows® ME/2000/XP the hard disk is now automatically recognised and connected. NOTE: Your drive has already been set up in the delivery status. It will not be necessary to reformat or repartition it. SETTING UP 5 INSTALLING THE HARD DISK NOTE: Your drive has already been set up in the delivery status. It will not be necessary to reformat or repartition it. Partitioning or formatting a disk drive deletes data. We assume no responsibility for lost data. BEFORE YOU INSTALL YOUR HARD DISK . . . We would like to remind you once again that when installing the new hard disk some programs are used that could cause your data to be irreversibly lost if used incorrectly. Make a backup of all your data and check that the recovery procedure works. PARTITIONING PROGRAMS With Windows® 2000/XP use the data media management help program in order to install the hard disk. You can find the program in the computer management. With some operating systems you must have administration rights to install a hard disk. With Windows® ME the hard disk is installed with the DOS program FDISK. Look under help in Windows for detailed information on using this program. PARTITIONING THE DRIVE Partitioning a drive divides the space into different areas which can be accessed as separate logic drives (with letters C:, D:, E: etc. ). Read the operating system manual to find out to partition hard drives. FORMATTING THE DRIVE In order to remove data from the hard disk, the partitions must be formatted. You must be totally sure about which drive letter to enter so that you don't format a drive that contains data you wish to keep. You can carry out the partitioning using Windows® Explorer (right click on the drive and select format). Read which formatting options you have in the next section. 6 ENGLISH CHOOSING BETWEEN NTFS, FAT, AND FAT32 When you use Windows XP and Windows 2000 you can choose between three file systems for disk partitions: NTFS, FAT, and FAT32. Use the information below to compare the file systems. NTFS is the recommended file system for the following reasons: NTFS is more powerful than FAT or FAT32, and includes features required for hosting Active Directory as well as other important security features. You can use features such as Active Directory and domain-based security only by choosing NTFS as your file system. It is easy to convert partitions to NTFS. The Setup program makes conversion easy, whether your partitions used FAT, FAT32, or the older version of NTFS. This kind of conversion keeps your files intact (unlike formatting a partition). [. . . ] What software were you using when the error occurred?What steps have you already undertaken to solve the problem?If you have already been given a customer number, please have this available. CUSTOMER SERVICE 11 WARRANTY The sales receipt serves as proof of first purchase and should be kept in a safe place. It is required should you need to make use of the guarantee. [. . . ]