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2.3 Formatting your Guardian MAXimus on a Macintosh with Mac

OS X

Click on the “Initialize” button.

Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would be the 640

GB Newer Technology device. Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This procedure will erase all data on your hard disk drives in the

Guardian MAXimus. Back up any important data before proceeding!

Chapter 2 - Formatting

Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus

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Summary of Contents for Guardian Maximus

Page 1: ...Hardware RAID 1 Mirror Performance Storage Solution Owners Manual ...

Page 2: ... 1 6 FRONT STATUS LIGHTS 4 APPENDIX 5 CUSTOMER SERVICE 5 1 BEFORE CONTACTING CUSTOMER SERVICE 5 2 CUSTOMER SERVICE HOURS OF OPERATION 2 FORMATTING 2 1 IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT BOOTING ON AN OLDER MACINTOSH 2 2 IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF YOU PLAN ON USING YOUR DRIVE WITH A PC SYSTEM 2 3 MACINTOSH FORMATTING 2 4 REMOVING AN EXISTING GUID PARTITION 2 5 WINDOWS FORMATTING 2 6 MACDRIVE 8 3 TROUBLESHOO...

Page 3: ...peeds HDD only Hard Drives of identical capacity model are required Chapter 1 Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus Item Quantity Guardian MAXimus 1 Power brick and cable 1 eSATA cable 1 1394B FireWire 800 cable 1 1394A FireWire 400 cable 1 USB 3 0 cable 1 Screws 2 sizes types 12 Software CD Bundle 1 User Guide Owner s Manual 1 Contents may vary Please see item listing for ...

Page 4: ...logy Guardian MAXimus here using the included cable This port is backwards compatible with all versions of USB Power Port Insert the power adapter plug here On Off Switch Turn the Guardian MAXimus on and off here Security Slot Attach a security cable here to prevent theft 1 5 Cable Connections Quickstart Guide Attachment of the cables is simple on any platform 1 Plug the power input cord into the ...

Page 5: ...nMAXimus is rebuilding the LED will flash green during the rebuild process If the rebuild fails the rebuild light will turn off and the failed hard drive light will illuminate red again If this happens please contact our support department for further assistance In the event of a drive failure rebuilding can take several hours to overnight You may continue to use your Newer Technology Guardian MAX...

Page 6: ...nal drive as the start up drive you do not need to perform this procedure your new drive will work as formatted for normal external storage use and step by step instructions to do so are covered on the next pages of this manual Notes GPT GUID Partition Table To use the disk as a boot volume on an Intel based Mac or to use the disk as a non boot disk with any Mac with Mac OS X version 10 4 or later...

Page 7: ...ttached to it in this picture that would be the 640 GB Newer Technology device Click on the picture of the drive icon next to the text IMPORTANT NOTE This procedure will erase all data on your hard disk drives in the Guardian MAXimus Back up any important data before proceeding Chapter 2 Formatting Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus ...

Page 8: ...ou then need to choose how many partitions you wish your Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus to have For ease of use we re selecting one partition here but of course you could select more if you wish to have multiple volumes created Simply use the pulldown menu under Volume Scheme to create more partitions Chapter 2 Formatting Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus ...

Page 9: ...lick Apply to finish You will be asked to confirm that you wish to format the drive agree and then after a few moments partitioning will complete and the Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus volume will mount on your desktop You can quit Disk Utility you re all set Chapter 2 Formatting Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus ...

Page 10: ...gured solution from NewerTech it comes preformatted using the Mac OS HFS file system on a GUID drive partition Unfortunately this is not readable by Windows without special software If you wish to use your storage solution on a computer running Windows you will need to repartition and reformat using the following instructions Go to the DOS command prompt by select ing Run from the Start Menu Type ...

Page 11: ... should appear If the Wizard does not appear expand the Storage menu by clicking on the plus sign Then right click next to the disk number of the drive that you have just connected and click Initialize to bring up the Wizard In the next window there should be only one drive listed That will be the drive that you connected via eSATA FireWire or USB Make sure the box next to the drive name is checke...

Page 12: ...pace and choose New Partition The New Partition Wiz ard will launch Click Next to continue Specify your partition type as Primary and click Next The wizard will display the maximum partition size for your drive It is strongly recommended that you do not change the default value Click Next Chapter 2 Formatting Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus ...

Page 13: ... to specify the file system as NTFS Leave the Allocation unit size as Default and feel free to give the drive whatever name you prefer Be sure to check the box Perform a quick format If you do not it will likely take several hours for your drive to format Click Next At the end of the Wizard you will see a summary of the information that you speci fied during the previous steps Click Finish Chapter...

Page 14: ... represented as Disk E in this case will display a message of Formatting This should only take a couple of minutes if you chose the quick format option After a moment or two the drive s status will change from Formatting to Healthy Chapter 2 Formatting Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus ...

Page 15: ...icon on the Mac disk just to keep things clear You can access files on the Mac disk just like you would with a Windows formatted disk Open files from the disk or from within a program Mac files automatically get the right icons and file name extensions under both Windows and Mac OS Works great with software from Microsoft Adobe Quark FileMaker Avid Digidesign Corel NewTek and more You can find Mac...

Page 16: ...a is lost always eject or unmount the drive from your operating system before powering off There are two methods to umount disks with Macintosh systems Either drag the icon for the hard disk you wish to dismount to the trash can or click the eject icon next to the hard disk name in under the DEVICES tab in the sidebar in any finder window For Windows systems 1 Go to the System Tray located in the ...

Page 17: ...ange LED is lit a rebuild is performing or the device is being reformatted Normally this indicates that you had a failed hard drive or data was written out of sync and the rebuild is correcting the error Q How many drives can fail before I lose my data A Since this is a RAID 1 Mirrored solution you can have 1 drive fail without losing any data If both hard drives fail you will lose your data The N...

Page 18: ...at you keep two copies of your data One copy on your Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus and a second copy on either your internal hard drive or another storage medium such as an optical backup or on a second external hard drive Any data loss or corruption while using the Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus is the sole responsibility of the user and under no circumstances will Newer Technology be held...

Page 19: ...u The serial number of the enclosure Your invoice number What operating system you are using Which kind and model of computer you are using All of this will help speed your support contact along 5 1 Before Contacting Customer Service 5 2 Support Hours Of Operation 5 CUSTOMER SERVICE Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus Chapter 5 Customer Service 8AM 10PM CST Monday Friday 9AM 4PM CST Saturday By Tele...

Page 20: ...ct the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Health And Safety Precautions Use proper anti static precautions while performing the installation of your hard drives into this drive enclosure Failure to do so can cause damage to your drive mechanisms and or the hard drive enclosure Read this User s Guide carefully and follow the correct procedure ...

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