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Introduction

Welcome,  and  thank  you  for  purchasing  GreenDrive  Quad 

Interface Hard Disk from Fantom Drives. 

In  photos  and  illustrations  in  this  guide,  The  following  alert 

symbols are used in this guide:

This signifies important 

information for ALL users.

This signifies important infor-

mation for USB 2.0 users.

This signifies important infor-

mation for eSATA users.

This signifies important infor-

mation for FireWire users.

The  GreenDrive  Quad  Hard  Disk  can  only  sustain  one 

connection type at any given time; the drive will appear as an 

eSATA device when connected via eSATA, a FireWire device 

when  connected  via  FireWire,  and  as  a  USB  device  if  the 

USB cable is connected.

USB 2.0 compatibility with USB 1.x

USB  2.0  ports  are  backward  compatible  with  USB  1.x. 

However, if you connect the Drive to a USB 1.x port, it will 

operate at USB 1.x speeds.

System Requirements

• 

 Power  Macintosh  G4  or  newer  running  Mac  OS  X  10.4  or 

newer

•  1.8  GHz  Pentium  4  class  PC  or  faster  CPU  running 

Windows XP SP2, 2003, or Vista

•  An available eSATA Port or

•  An available USB 1.1 or 2.0 port or

•  An available FireWire 400 port or

•  An available FireWire 800 port

Two Year

Limited Warranty

Fantom Drives warrants this product (the “Product”) against defects in 

material or workmanship as follows:

1.  LABOR:  For  a  period  of  two  (2)  year  from  the  original  date  of 

purchase from Fantom Drives or its authorized relseller, Fantom Drives 

will  repair  defective  Product  (or,  at  its  option,  replace  with  a  new  or 

recertified product) at no charge. After this 2 year period, you must pay 

for all labor charges.

2. PARTS: For a period of two (2) year from the original date of purchase 

from Fantom Drives or its 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 covers the hardware components packaged with the 

Product.  This  warranty  does  not  cover  any  software  contained  in,  or 

included with, the Product; any such software is provided “AS IS”. Please 

refer  to  any  documentation  included  with  the  software  for  your  rights 

and obligations with respect to the software.

This  warranty  extends  only  to  you,  the  original  purchaser.  It  is  not 

transferable to any one who subsequently purchases the Product from you.

Proof  of  purchase  in  the  form  of  a  bill  of  sale  (which  is  evidence  that 

the Product is within the warranty period) must be presented to obtain 

warranty service.

To  obtain  warranty  service  you  must  take  the  Product,  or  deliver  the 

Product freight prepaid, in either it’s original packaging, or in a package 

that provides the Product with a degree of protection equivalent to that 

of  the  original  packaging,  to  Fantom  Drives.  Please  contact  Fantom 

Drives at the number listed on the reverse side for further information.

Fantom  Drives  is  not  responsible  for  any  damage  to,  or  loss  of,  any 

programs, data, or other information stored on any media or 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 

Summary of Contents for GreenDrive Quad

Page 1: ... 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 accordance with the instructions there is n...

Page 2: ...lfunction 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 exclusiv...

Page 3: ...a period of two 2 year from the original date of purchase from Fantom Drives or its 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 unde...

Page 4: ...for the Disk that has a capacity 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 Next You will see a default value for the drive c...

Page 5: ...allation 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 I formatted my hard disk under Windows XP but my Vista machine does not allow me to delete or modify files on the drive A Windows Vista and XP handle file permissions differently In Windows XP the default user group has full permissions to eve...

Page 6: ...you do not need to install drivers Hot swappable Devices can be added and removed while the computer is running Also you can turn off the device when not needed in order to conserve electricity FireWire USB 2 0 Compared FAQs for Mac Users Q Why is my drive asking me to format it It was already formatted and it contains data A1 Run a disk repair utility on the drive A2 Perform permission repair on ...

Page 7: ...ailed If you do not hear and feel the drive spin up when you connect the power the drive will need to be replaced If you verify that the computer input and the drive data cable are working you may be able to repair or recover the data with your computer s disk repair utility or a third party utility If your disk repair utility cannot repair or see the disk the drive has failed and will need to be ...

Page 8: ...nd one FireWire 400 port for connecting additional FireWire device in a daisy chain 4 Press the power switch located on the back of the GreenDrive Quad Hard Disk Once the Drive is powered up your computer should recognize it and the Drive will be ready to use 8 13 Performing Basic Tasks How to open files and folders stored on the External Hard Drive PC and Mac Users 1 Double click on the Drive ico...

Page 9: ...er for the device 3 Left click on the appropriate device with the drive letter matching the one used by the External Hard drive After a few seconds Windows will give you a message that it is safe to remove the device Formatting Your Drive The GreenDrive II comes preformatted at the factory with the NTFS file system which will mount on Windows computers as well as on most modern operating systems f...

Page 10: ...ulnerable to data loss Make sure to have appropriate backup strategies before enabling this feature Formatting the Drive in Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista 1 Open the disk management console located at Windows System32 diskmgmt msc on your system drive A list of the attached drives and their respective volumes will appear Select the Fantom Drives GreenDrive II Disk 2 Right click on a GreenDrive II volu...

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