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Personal Storage Installation Guide for Macintosh – 1394 Interface
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Hardware Installation
Personal Storage Installation
To connect your new Maxtor Personal Storage
product to your computer, please follow these
simple steps. If these steps are not performed in
order, your product may not function properly.
Power Cord Connections
1. Ensure that your computer is on and running
one of the required operating systems.
2. Plug the four-pin male connector with the flat
side facing up into the back of the product’s DC
power-in connector (Figure 1).
Urgent Notice for 160GB Products
The 160GB Personal Storage product cannot
be used to transport data between Windows-
based PC’s and Macintosh computer systems.
Do not connect it to a Mac running OS X if
the personal storage product has previously
been installed on a PC. Connecting the product
to a Mac running OS X after it has been used
on a PC will result immediately in lost data.
To use Maxtor Personal Storage products with
160GB capacity or higher on your Macintosh
running OS X, you must first reformat the
drive.The Mac OS Disk Utility will guide
you through the process.
REFORMATTING THE DRIVE WILL DESTROY
DATA STORED ON THAT DRIVE
Additional Note
The 160GB Maxtor Personal Storage model
is not supported as a boot drive for
Macintosh systems.
3. Connect the female end of the electric cord
into the power adapter (Figure 2).
4. Plug the male connector from the power
adapter into power outlet.
1394 Data Cable Connections
1. Plug one end of the translucent 1394 cable into
any available 1394 port on your computer.
2. Plug the other end of the translucent 1394 cable
into either of the 1394 connections on the
product (Figure 3).
Figure 3
1394 Cable Hook-up
Figure 2
Power Adapter Connection
Figure 1
Power Connection
