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WARRANTY

(valid in Europe/Turkey only)

We thank you for purchasing this Freecom product and hope you will enjoy using it.

In order to avoid unnecessary inconvenience on your part, we suggest reading the quick 

install guide,  instruction manual and any additional electronic and or printed manuals. 

When problems occur we have a database with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on 

our Freecom website (www.freecom.com), please check this site before you contact the 

helpdesk. 

Your Guarantee

All Freecom products come with unlimited technical phone and web support. By this 

Guarantee, Freecom warrants their products to be free from defects in material and work-

manship for a period listed below from the date of its original purchase. If during this period 

of guarantee the product proves defective due to improper materials or workmanship, 

Freecom will, without charge for labour or parts, at its sole discretion, repair or replace the 

product or its defective parts upon the terms and conditions set out below.

Conditions

This guarantee will be granted only when the original invoice or sales receipt (indicating 

the date of purchase, product and serial number) is presented together with the defective 

product and a Freecom RMA number received from the Freecom Website or given by a 

Freecom Service Center. Freecom reserves the right to refuse the free-of-charge guaran-

tee services when the date of purchase of the product cannot be proven. This guarantee 

will not apply if the RMA number is missing, the serial number on the product has been 

altered, removed or made illegible.

This guarantee covers only the hardware components packaged with the product. This 

guarantee covers none of the following: (a) any consumable supplied with the product, 

such as media or batteries; (b) damage to or loss of any software programs, data or remo-

vable storage media; (c) any damage resulting from adaptations, changes or adjustments, 

which may have been made to the product, without the prior written consent of Freecom; 

(d) attempted repair by any party other than authorized by Freecom and (e) accidents, 

lightning, water, fire or any other such cause beyond the reasonable control of Freecom.
With respect to all services provided, Freecom 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. Freecom is not liable for the consequence of business loss in case of system 

failure. Be sure to exclude all parts not covered by this guarantee prior to returning the 

product to Freecom. Freecom is not liable for any loss or damage to these items. If during 

the repair of the product the contents of the hard drive are altered, deleted or in any way 

modified, Freecom is not liable whatsoever. 
Repair parts and replacement products will be provided on an exchange basis and will be 

either new, equivalent to new or reconditioned. All replaced parts and products become 

the property of Freecom The period of guarantee for any product or part repaired or re-

placed in warranty shall be the balance of the original guarantee. Repairs or replacements 

on product or parts out of warranty carry

 6 (six)

 months guarantee.

2

YEARS

WARRANTY

Summary of Contents for TOUGH DRIVE LEATHER -

Page 1: ...Rev 828 USER MANUAL TOUGHDRIVELEATHER EXTERNAL MOBILE HARD DRIVE 2 5 USB 2 0 WIN MAC...

Page 2: ...ed The products named in this manual are only used for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies This device was designed for home or office us...

Page 3: ...nstallation page 7 Chapter 2 Driver Installation page 7 Chapter 3 Installation of the application software page 8 Chapter 4 Freecom Hard Drive Protection Tool page 10 Chapter 5 Using Freecom ULTRA USB...

Page 4: ...ollowing components are needed PC Intel Pentium III AMD Duron 900 MHz or higher 256 MB RAM Vista 512 MB RAM or higher Available USB 2 0 or USB 1 1 port Internet connection for online warranty registra...

Page 5: ...ailing to do so may lead to condensation within the drive enclosure which in turn may cause the drive to malfunction Do not place liquids or drinks on the Freecom ToughDrive Leather When liquids are s...

Page 6: ...e access Foryourconvenience theToughDriveLeatherhasbeenpartitioned 1partition andpre formatted FAT32 file system The FAT32 format ensures maximum interchangeability of the ToughDrive Leather between d...

Page 7: ...en the drive is connected to a USB 2 0 port On some computers it might occur that the USB port does not deliver enough power to the ToughDrive Leather In that case you need to use an external power su...

Page 8: ...er to continue with the installation 3 1 1 Saving Freecom data The user manuals and complementary software when applicable are pre loaded onto the hard drive We recommend that you save these files to...

Page 9: ...allation 1 Saving Freecom data Theusermanualsandcomplementarysoftware whenapplicable arepre loadedonto theharddrive Werecommendthatyousavethesefilestoyourcomputer Documents Freecom to always have a ba...

Page 10: ...ToughDrive Leather from your PC in order to reactivate the password protection Some PCs keep USB devices supplied with power when being in hibernation mode therefore you remain logged in with your pa...

Page 11: ...rotection software The Hard Drive Protection Wizard will open Click Next to proceed 4 Enter a password This password will be required to access the protected partition Confirm the password in the seco...

Page 12: ...l now be accessible in My Computer I lost my password what can I do now Ifyouloseyourpassword youwillnotbeabletoaccessyourdataanymore Theonlyway to continue using your ToughDrive Leather is to erase a...

Page 13: ...mat Hard Disk Wizard 3 To continue you have to confirm that all data on your hard disk will be deleted Click on Next to continue 4 In a final step you have to confirm once again that you want to erase...

Page 14: ...visible when you connect the drive 1 Make sure you already run the Password exe to have access to your protected data 2 Onceyouhaveaccesstoyourprotecteddata runthe Password exe againandselect Remove p...

Page 15: ...ecommend to completely discon necting the ToughDrive Leather from your Mac in order to reactivate the password pro tection Some Macs keep USB devices supplied with power when being in hibernation mode...

Page 16: ...OK Accessing the password encrypted hard disk 1 Connect your Freecom ToughDrive Leather to your Mac A window will open stating that the inserted disk is not readable Click on Ignore 2 Run Password fr...

Page 17: ...ive alldatapreviously stored on the drive will be erased All data on the drive will be deleted Follow these steps to erase and format your hard drive 1 Run Password from the virtual CD ROM Drive and c...

Page 18: ...will always be visible when you connect the drive 1 Make sure you already run Password to have access to your protected data 2 Once you have access to your protected data run Password again and selec...

Page 19: ...e from your ToughDrive Leather and go to Software Installation Freecom Ultra USB 2 0 3 The Freecom Ultra USB 2 0 Wizard will open 4 Check the drive and click on Configure to enable the Ultra USB2 0 dr...

Page 20: ...ystems and Instructions to enable you to adapt the ToughDrive Leather to your needs 6 2 File System features Please refer to the tables below for an overview File systems supported by different operat...

Page 21: ...needs 6 3 Partitioning your ToughDrive Leather under Windows 2000 XP Vista 6 3 1 Deleting a partition on the Freecom ToughDrive Leather 1 Click with the right mouse button on the My Computer icon on...

Page 22: ...EN 6 Freecom ToughDrive Leather 5 Click with the right mouse button on the unallocated area and select the option NewPartition Windows2000 CreatePartitionWizard The NewPartitionWizard opens Click on N...

Page 23: ...adjust the size of your partition Click on Next if only one partition is to be created See next chapter Creating two or more partitions on the ToughDrive Leather under Windows 2000 XP Vista how to cre...

Page 24: ...ttings Choose either FAT32 or NTFS the Allocation unit size should remain on Default Finally select Perform a quick format and click on Next 10 Click on Finish to complete the partitioning of your Fre...

Page 25: ...tion 2 Click with the right mouse button on the My Computer icon on your desktop 3 Select the option Manage 4 Select the option Storage Disk Management 5 Right click on the unallocated space of your T...

Page 26: ...26 EN 6 Freecom ToughDrive Leather 8 Click on Finish to create the Extended partition The unallocated space now changed to Free space...

Page 27: ...click on Next 12 Assign a drive letter and click on Next 13 Select the formatting option Format this partition with the following settings Chooseeither FAT32 or NTFS the Allocationunitsize shouldrema...

Page 28: ...X 1 Open the Disk Utility This can be found in Applications Utilities 2 Click on the tab Partition Here you can setup the partition settings and partition the drive according to your set tings e g Ma...

Page 29: ...erial number on the product has been altered removed or made illegible This guarantee covers only the hardware components packaged with the product This guarantee covers none of the following a any co...

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