User’s Manual
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .......................................................................................... 1 PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS................................................................................ 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................................... 4 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 ..
INTRODUCTION The PCMCIA hard disk is a portable compact hard disk drive that attached with the PCMCIA interface of computer. The external hard disk provides a fast and easy way to add more storage space to your computer. Plus, the Plug & Play feature gives you a great convenience on the road. The external hard disk can be easily connected to computer for using, and can even be disconnected and re-connected while the computer is running. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ♦ Notebook or desktop computer with PCMCIA 2.
PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS Your external hard disk may differ slightly from the figures shown, however the controls will operate as described below. 1. LED: Power-on and Data-access indicator LED. 2. Interface Connector: This interface connector connects to the PCMCIA interface cable. 3. Power Source Switch: PC: Means this hard disk is powered by the PCMCIA socket of computer. DC: Means this hard disk is powered by an external power source.
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HARDWARE INSTALLATION Note: ♦ If you want to use an external power to powers the hard disk, please use the AC adapter or PS/2 power source cable provided by manufacturer, using an incorrect external power could result in permanent and unpredictable damage to the drive.
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SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 95/98 The following installation procedures are extracted from the Windows 98SE installation. The installation for Windows 95 is almost same. 1. Boot-up your computer into Windows, making sure the device driver for ‘PCMCIA Socket’ has been installed and is available. To check this, right-click ‘My Computer’, click ‘Properties’ and then ‘Device Manager’ to open the ‘Device Manager’ window.
5. Select ‘Floppy disk drives’ box and insert the device driver diskette into floppy drive. Click Next. 6. Wait for few seconds, Windows will find a driver from the floppy diskette, select ‘PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6)’, and click Next. 7. Ensure the driver file that Windows found is ‘A:\ PCMHD.INF’. Click Next.
8. After the necessary files are copied into your internal hard disk, a screen will appear as the figure, click Finish. 9. Windows will complete the installation and then detect the hard disk drive inside the external hard disk kit and get it to work. After system read the content of the hard disk drive (about few seconds), you will find a new drive letter has been assigned for the drive in ‘My Computer’. 10.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS Me 1. Boot-up your computer into Windows, making sure the device driver for ‘PCMCIA Socket’ has been installed and is available. To check this, right-click ‘My Computer’, click ‘Properties’ and then ‘Device Manager’ to open the ‘Device Manager’ window. Refer to the figure shown alongside to see if the PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2.
5. Ensure the driver file that Windows found is ‘A:\ PCMHD.INF’. Click Next, Windows will install the driver from the diskette. After the necessary files are copied into your internal hard disk, a screen will appear as the figure shown on right, click Finish. 6. Windows will complete the installation and then detect the hard disk drive inside the external hard disk kit and get it to work.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS 2000 1. Boot-up your computer into Windows, making sure the device driver for ‘PCMCIA Adapters’ has been installed and is available. To check this, right-click ‘My Computer’, click ‘Properties’ then ‘Hardware’ and then ‘Device Manager’ to open the ‘Device Manager’ window. Refer to the figure shown alongside to see if the PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2.
5. Insert the device driver diskette into floppy drive, only select ‘Specify a location’, leave the other check boxes be empty (don’t select them), and click Next. When the wizard asks for the path, type ‘A:\WIN2000’ in ‘Copy manufacturer’s files from’ location, click OK. 6. Wait for few seconds, Windows will find a driver from the floppy diskette, make sure the file that Windows found is ‘A:\Win2000\PCMHD2K.INF’. Click Next. 7. Click Yes on the ‘Digital Signature Not Found’ screen.
8. After the necessary files are copied into your internal hard disk, a screen will appear as the figure, click Finish. 9. Windows will complete the installation and then detect the hard disk drive inside the external hard disk kit and get it to work. After system read the content of the hard disk drive (about few seconds), you will find a new drive letter has been assigned for the drive in ‘My Computer’. 10.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP 1. Boot-up your computer into Windows, making sure the device driver for ‘PCMCIA Adapters’ has been installed and is available. To check this, right-click ‘My Computer’, click ‘Properties’ then ‘Hardware’ and then ‘Device Manager’ to open the ‘Device Manager’ window. Refer to the figure shown alongside to see if the PCMCIA Controller is installed without error. 2.
4. Wait for few seconds, Windows will find device driver from the diskette and install it automatically. After the necessary files are copied into your internal hard disk, a screen will appear as the figure shown on right, click Finish. 5. Windows will complete the installation and then detect the hard disk drive inside the external hard disk kit and get it to work.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS NT Note: ♦ Make sure the Windows NT system is version 3.51 or higher. ♦ Since Windows NT does not support ‘Hot Insert/Remove’ feature, this external hard disk should be connected to computer prior to starting Windows NT. Likewise, do not remove this drive before you shut down the computer. ♦ In Windows NT, the I/O and IRQ settings of PCMCIA IDE device cannot be changed.
5. Select ‘PCMCIA HARDDISK’ and then click OK. 6. Follow the on-screen instruction to continue. After the installation is complete, Windows will prompt you to restart to activate the new device driver. Restart and power-off the computer. 7. Ensure the PCMCIA interface cable and then the external power connections (if you are using the external power) are made as described in Hardware Installation.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.1 Automatic Installation Follow the instructions below to proceed with automatic installation. 1. Insert the device driver diskette into a floppy disk drive on your computer. 2. Change the working directory to the floppy drive containing the device driver diskette by typing A: then press ENTER. 3. At the DOS prompt (A:\>), type INSTALL followed by the ENTER key. 4. Press ENTER or click OK button to continue.
Manual Installation You may also manually install the external hard disk device driver. Note: The filename of the DOS device driver is different with the different version of driver package, it could be ARIHD.EXE or NVIHD.EXE. However, you can find this driver in the root folder of the diskette, the filename will be present as xxxHD.EXE. The following example is assumed the filename is NVIHD.EXE, replace the filename if you get the different driver file. 1. Copy the file NVIHD.
USING HARD DISK WITH PCMCIA INTERFACE To Connect The PCMCIA Hard Disk To Your Computer ♦ Windows 95/98/Me/2000, and WindowsXP: 1. Boot into the Windows system. 2. Insert the plug of the PCMCIA interface cable into the Interface Connector of drive. 3. Make sure the Power Source Switch is at the correct position: PC: get power from the PCMCIA socket of computer. DC: get power from the external power. 4.
To Disconnect The PCMCIA Hard Disk From Your Computer ♦ Windows 95/98, and Windows Me: 1. Click on the icon (or ) on system tray and a dialog box appears beside this icon. 2. Click ‘Stop PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6)’ in the dialog box. 3. Wait for few seconds until the system prompts ‘The PCMCIA HARDDISK (D6) can now be safely removed from the system’. Click OK, and then remove the PC Card of the cable from computer. ♦ Windows 2000: 1. Click on the icon on system tray and a dialog box appears beside this icon.
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ADVANCED USAGE " Partition the External Hard Disk " Change the Drive Letter Assigned to HDD - 23 -
PARTITION THE EXTERNAL HARD DISK Using FDISK Under Windows 98SE/Me FDISK is a program to create one or more partitions of the hard disk, after the partition was built and formatted, data can be write to the hard disk. To partition the external hard disk, you must execute FDISK under the MS-DOS mode under Windows 98SE/Me, please follow the steps: 1. Boot-up the computer into Windows 98SE/Me system. Plug the external hard disk to computer, and make sure it is recognized. 2.
6. In the ‘Change Current Fixed Disk Drive’ screen, type the disk drive number that assigned to the external hard disk (usually, the external hard disk is the fixed disk drive number 2). 7. Back to ‘FDISK OPTIONS’ screen, type 4 to display the content of the fixed disk drive, check the content to make sure the current drive is the external hard disk. 8. Now you can create (type 1) or delete (type 3) the partition of the external hard disk. 9.
Using Disk Management Under Windows 2000/XP Note: The external hard disk can’t works with ‘Dynamic Disk’ type. Do not upgrade the external hard disk to ‘Dynamic Disk’ type, always use it with ‘Basic Disk’ type. 1. To partition the external hard disk under Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please plug the external hard disk and make sure it is recognized, then, ♦ In Windows 2000: click Start ! Settings ! Control Panel ! Administrative Tools ! Computer Management to open ‘Computer Management’ window.
this situation, Windows system won’t allow you to create partition with this drive. In the meantime, you can: ♦ In Windows 2000: Windows will start up the ‘Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard’ immediately. You can use this ‘Wizard’ to initial the hard disk to the ‘Basic Disk’ type and can then create partition in the drive.
9. Click Finish, now the formatting is proceed, after the process is done, the ‘Disk Management’ window is changed as below. Make sure the status of the partition is ‘Healthy’. 10. Now, a partition is created in the external hard disk, you can write data to it, and if you want, one or more partitions can be created in the same hard disk drive, just repeat the above steps.
CHANGE THE DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNED TO HDD To change the drive letter for the external hard disk under Windows 98SE or Me, for example, from drive ‘D’ to drive ‘E’, follow the instructions below. 1. Open ‘Control Panel’, then ‘System’, click on ‘Device Manager’ tab, double click on ‘Disk Drives’, select the model of the external hard disk, then click on ‘Properties’ button. 2.
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