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2. At the back of the drive, you will notice a port that corresponds to the connector at the
base of the Personality Cable that you have chosen. This is the SATA port that allows
you to connect multiple cables to a single universal base. Plug the appropriate
Personality Cable into the back of the GoFlex or GoFlex Pro ultra-portable drive.
3. Plug the other end of the Personality Cable into your computer or other compatible
device.
4. The two white LEDs at the base of the Personality Cable will blink a few times, as the
Drive connects to your computer, and then slowly pulse as long as it remains tethered to
your machine.
Configuring Your GoFlex Software:
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For Windows users: At this point, if all you want to do is store individual files and folders
on your Windows machine, you can do so. However, to take advantage of the GoFlex
ultra-portable drive, you should double-click on the file titled Setup.exe in the folder titled
FreeAgent GoFlex Drive to install Seagate Dashboard, which is licensed from Memeo.
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For Mac OS X users (Leopard and Snow Leopard): You will immediately see a pop-up
menu asking you whether or not you intend to use the Drive with Time Machine, Apple’s
proprietary backup solution.
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Select “No” for now, so that you can test the Drive with our backup solution,
Seagate Dashboard and Memeo Backup for Mac.
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You will then see a pop-up menu asking you how you intend to use the drive.
The two options are:
Mac and PC
Mac Only
This is to determine how the GoFlex ultra-portable drive will be formatted. If you select
Mac and PC, you will be able to use the Drive to drag and drop files, but you won’t be
able to use Memeo Backup for Mac or Time Machine. For the purposes of this product
review, we recommend that you select Mac Only.
