User manual

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EAGLEROC E9
user manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NOTICES 4
• Safety Notices ________________________________________________________ 4
• General Notices
• Capacity Disclaimer____________________________________________________ 4
• Care and Handling 4
GENERAL 6
• Introduction ___ ________________________________________________ 6
• Box Contents 6
• Minimum System Requirements _____________________________________ 7
• Connectors and Eagleroc rear view 7
QUICK INSTALLATION 8
• How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive ___________________ 8
• Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB and SATA 10
INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 11
• Eagleroc as a bootable device ____________________________________________ 11
• Disconnecting Your Drive 11
o PC _______________________________________________________________ 11
o Mac 12
• Reformatting Your Drive ________________________________________________ 12
o Reformatting via PC (Window based computers) 12
o Reformatting via Mac _______________________________________________ 12
• Important Note 12
• How to Daisy-Chain through FireWire ports to your Eagleroc Drive at one time ____ 13
PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING THE EAGLEROC DRIVE ON A MAC OS 14
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 14
• Important Notes 14
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ _______________ 14
PARTITIONING-FORMATTING the EAGLEROC Drive on WINDOWS 2000, XP and VISTA 22
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 22
• Important Notes 22
• Different ways to get to the Control Panel __________________________________ 23
• Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 25
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS _______________ 26