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Contents

Introduction

 ............................................................ 3

Parts & Accessories List

 .......................................... 4

System Requirements

  ............................................. 5

Fantom Drives External Hard Drive at a Glance

 .......... 6

Precautions

............................................................. 7

Connecting the Drive to Your Computer

 ..................... 8

Setting the RAID operating mode

 .............................. 9

Big (Span)  .............................................................. 9

Dual (JBOD) ........................................................... 10

Fast (RAID 0) ......................................................... 10

Safe (RAID 1)  ........................................................ 11

Formatting Your Fantom Drives External Hard Drive

 . 12 

Formatting the Drive in Mac OS X  ............................ 12

Formatting the Drive in Windows  ............................. 13

How to safely dismount and turn off your

Fantom Drives External Hard Drive

 ......................... 14

Troubleshooting /

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 

 ........................  15 

One Year Limited Warranty

  ..................................  18

Contact Information

 ..............................................  BC

any part of any Product serviced hereunder. Be sure to remove all 

features,  parts,  options,  alterations,  and  attachments  not  under 

warranty prior to returning the Product to Fantom Drives. Fantom 

Drives is not liable for any loss or damage to these items.

This limited warranty does not cover: (1) any consumables (such as 

batteries) supplied with this product; cosmetic damages; damage or 

loss to any software programs, data or removable storage media; 

or damage due to the Product such as but not limited to excessive 

heat  or  humidity,  or  modifications  of  this  Product;  (2)  improper 

installation,  operation,  testing  or  maintenance  of  this  Product; 

(3)  power  failure  or  connection  to  improper  voltage  supply;  or; 

(4) attempted repair by any party other than Fantom Drives. This 

Warranty does not apply when the malfunction results from the use 

of this Product in conjunction with accessories, products or ancillary 

or  peripheral  equipment,  or  where  it  is  determined  by  Fantom 

Drives that there is no fault with this Product itself.

This Limited Warranty is invalid if the factory applied serial number 

has been altered or removed from the Product.

Repair  or  replacement  as  provided  under  this  warranty  is  the 

exclusive  remedy  of  the  consumer.  Fantom  Drives  shall  not  be 

liable  for  any  incidental  or  consequential  damages  for  breach  of 

any  express  or  implied  warranty,  breach  of  contract,  negligence, 

strict  liability  or  any  other  legal  theory  related  to  this  product. 

Such  damage  include,  but  are  not  limited  to,  loss  of  profits,  loss 

of  data,  loss  of  use  of  the  product  or  any  associated  equipment, 

down  time  and  purchaser’s  time.  Except  to  the  extend  prohibited 

by applicable law, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness 

for a particular purpose on this product is limited in duration of this 

warranty.

Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or 

consequential damages, or allow limitations on how long on implied 

warranty lasts, so the above limitation or exclusions may not apply 

to you. This warranty gives you specific rights; you may have other 

rights which vary from state to state.

Summary of Contents for G-Force Megadisk

Page 1: ...ED SERVICE PERSONNEL FCC Compliance Statements This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordan...

Page 2: ...n to improper voltage supply or 4 attempted repair by any party other than Fantom Drives This Warranty does not apply when the malfunction results from the use of this Product in conjunction with accessories products or ancillary or peripheral equipment or where it is determined by Fantom Drives that there is no fault with this Product itself This Limited Warranty is invalid if the factory applied...

Page 3: ...ts authorized reseller Fantom Drives will supply at no charge new or rebuilt replacement parts in exchange for defective parts of this Product Any replacement parts will be warranted for the remainder of the original warranty period or ninety 90 days from installation by Fantom Drives All exchanged parts replaced under this warranty will become the property of Fantom Drives This warranty only cove...

Page 4: ...ty closest to your Fantom Drives External Hard Drive Right click on the right hand box in the pop up menu select Delete Partition Once you do this it will say Online Unallocated Right click on the box and select Create New Partition in the pop up menu When the Partition Wizard appears select Primary Partition and click on Next You will see a default value for the Drive click Next You will then see...

Page 5: ...ired to control a number of miscellaneous functions Please check with your computer manufacturer for BIOS updates to determine if your computer s BIOS supports this feature Q Does the Drive work with Norton Ghost A Yes Norton Ghost 2003 or newer support USB drives Fantom Drives does not provide any additional drivers Q Where are the drivers required A Windows 2000 XP 2003 and Vista already include...

Page 6: ...s are secure and that the power switch is in the ON position Then check if your External Hard Drive is listed in the Apple System Profiler If the problem persists verify that the USB eSATA port used is functioning Q I m trying to copy files to from FAT32 volumes or network shares and it keeps failing A FAT32 HFS and other file system formats allow different standards of filename length or use of s...

Page 7: ...o turn off and disconnect the Drive with the computer turned off PC and Mac When you shut down your computer the Drive dismounts automatically With the computer turned off simply turn off the Drive You may then unplug the power cord and data cable if you want to disconnect the drive Precautions Failure to follow the precautions described below may cause damage to your Fantom Drives External Hard D...

Page 8: ...s and their respective volumes will appear Select the Fanton Drives GForce Megadisk Disk The Disk Management Console can be found under Windows System32 diskmgmt msc on your system drive For an illustrated guide please see http www fantomdrives com support faqs 2 Right click on the drive letter and select Format in the pop up menu The Format dialog box will appear 3 Under Capacity verify the Drive...

Page 9: ...k Erase Once initializing is complete you should see the drive listed in the left sub window of the Disk Utility screen Quit Disk Utility You should now see the Drive icon on the Desktop Setting the RAID operation mode You can configure the Fantom Drives Megadisk eSATA USB to use any of the following Storage Policies to map the physical hard drives to virtual drives or volumes that are visible to ...

Page 10: ...AFE RAID 1 The SAFE storage policy stores all data in duplicate on each drives to protect against data loss due to drive failure One drive mirrors the other at all times equivalent to RAID 1 Every write operation goes to both drives SAFE provides the highest level of data fault tolerance but halves the amount of storage capacity because all data must be stored twice The resulting storage capacity ...

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