User manual SAMSUNG HM160JI/D

[. . . ] You just have to make a partition and format your drive for using. Please make sure whether you had partitioned and formatted. First of all, you must partition and format for recognizing the new drive in the Windows Explorer. Within Win98 series, please use the Fdisk. [. . . ] Actual accessible capacity may vary from advertised capacity due to formatting and partitioning of the hard drive, as well as due to your computer's operating system. If apply impact to the HDD, it causes a Bad Sector by crashing between Head and Media. Do not remove all items, such as Hard drive label, warranty label. Warranty void if any stickers or labels are removed or damaged. Do not touch the circuit board with hands or tools. Protect the HDD from Electrostatic Discharge(ESD). MR Head is very sensitive in Electrostatic. Keep the HDD in their static shielding bag. Avoid extreme temperatures and humidity places. Humidity causes a drive malfunction by reacting with an ingredient of oil in Disk and Head surface. Also, parts can be corrode by leaving in humidity. The Names and Content of Toxic and Hazardous Substances or Elements Parts Printed Circuit Assemblies Head Disk Assemblies Toxic and hazardous substances or elements Cd Hg Cr 6+ PBB PBDE Pb O O O O O X O O O O O X O : Indicates that the concentration of the hazardous substance in all h omogeneous materials in the parts is below the relevant threshold of the SJ/T11363-2006 standard. X : Indicates that the concentration of the hazardous substance of at least one of all homogeneous materials in the parts is above the relevant threshold of the SJ/T11363-2006 standard. When use an external case DO NOT DROP! DO NOT PRESS! Samsung Electronics Co. , Ltd. Printed in Korea. BF68-00237A REV02 Do not drop or fall while using and being storage the external case. An external case is easy to transfer, but can be shocked easily also. Check the External case's Grounding External case's Grounding prevents HDD malfunction form ESD PATA Installation Configuring your Hard Disk Drive (Master, Slave) SATA Installation Installing the hard disk Note: SATA 1. 5Gb/s Speed Limit Jumper setting Only for SATA 3. 0Gb/s products. In some rare cases SATA 1. 5Gb/s hosts can not establish SATA interface connection with SATA 3. 0Gb/s devices due to interface protocol issues. In this case the jumper may be installed as shown on the figure below to force the device to negotiate for SATA 1. 5Gb/s speed. Polarity Jumpers (a) Turn off the power of your computer. (b) Unplug the external power cables to the computer. Cover opening mechanism and the location of the hard disk drive may vary from one computer to another. (Consult your computer manual) (d) Insert the HDD into an available 3. 5" bay in your computer and secure it to computer and secure it to the chassis using the provided screws. (e) Connect Cables. 2 Make the computer detect the hard disk. 1 If your computer supports IDE HDD Auto Detection, the hard disk drive will automatically be detected. [. . . ] Make sure that the direction of the cables are correct and matches the shape of the receptacles when connecting cables. Incorrect cable connection may damage the hard disk drive. SATA Interface Cable FAQs Power Cable 1. Making Computer Detect the New Device Run the CMOS (BIOS) set-up program to detect the new hard disk drive. Q1 Q2 When using within an USB external case, sometimes drive is not recognized. It may be caused by insufficiency of USB DC power. [. . . ]