Rocstor ROCPRO 900e, User Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NOTICES
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• Safety Notices ________________________________________________________ 4
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General Notices
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Capacity Disclaimer ___________________________________________________ 4
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Care and Handling 4
GENERAL
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Introduction ___
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Box Contents 7
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Minimum System Requirements
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Connectors and Rocpro rear view 8
QUICK INSTALLATION
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How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive ___________________ 9
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Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB and SATA 10
INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 11
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Rocpro as a bootable device _____________________________________________ 11
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Disconnecting Your Drive 11
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PC _______________________________________________________________ 11
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Mac 12
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Reformatting Your Drive ________________________________________________ 12
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Reformatting via PC (Window based computers) 12
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Reformatting via Mac _______________________________________________ 12
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Important Note 12
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How to Daisy-Chain through FireWire ports to your Rocpro Drive at one time _____ 13
PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING THE ROCPRO DRIVE ON A MAC OS
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Warning _____________________________________________________________ 14
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Important Notes 14
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Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ _______________ 15
PARTITIONING & FORMATTING the ROCPRO Drive on WINDOWS 2000, XP, VISTA, 7 24
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Warning _____________________________________________________________ 24
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Important Notes 24
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Different ways to get to the Control Panel __________________________________ 25
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Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 27
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Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS _______________ 28
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