Dismounting your drive with the Windows OS
Mounting is the beginning and dismounting is the end
of the conversation between your computer and your
external hard drive. Mounting occurs automatically
when you connect and turn on your drive, but you
must initiate the dismounting action yourself. If you
disconnect or turn off the drive before you dismount
it, neither your drive nor your OS understands that
the conversation is finished. It’s like hanging up the
telephone without saying goodbye.
Caution:
Never turn off power to the drive or physically
disconnect any cable attached to the drive when the
LED indicates disc activity. That’s like hanging up in
mid-sentence, and it will probably result in data loss.
How to dismount the drive
1. Close all windows and quit all running applications
that are stored on the drive or that are using data
stored on the drive.
2. Click the icon in your system tray that represents the
Safely Remove Hardware
function, and then select
the Seagate external drive.
Note:
The system tray is the area in the lower right portion of your
desktop near the clock.
Windows OS displays a message when it is safe to
disconnect the interface cable or turn off the drive.
Macintosh OS
Mac OS 10.4 (or higher) eSATA host bus
adapter (card) installation
Turn the power off to your computer. Open the
computer case. Install the PCI eSATA card in an
available PCI slot on your computer’s motherboard.
Make sure the card is seated firmly in the slot, install
the mounting screw, and tighten down firmly. Close
the computer. Turn on the power to the computer.
After installing the eSATA300 TX2 Serial ATA Controller
card and rebooting your system, Mac OS X will not
recognise or report the presence of the eSATA300 TX2
Controller.
Follow these steps to install the drivers in order for the
system to recognise the PCI card:
1. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. The Seagate eSATA drive menu will appear: click on
eSATA PCI Card Menu
button. If the main menu
does not automatically launch, you can manually
open it by clicking welcome.htm on the CD.
3. Click the
MacOS PCI Installer
button.
4. The installer launches and the Introduction window
displays. Click
Continue
.
5. The Read Me window displays. Click
Continue
.
6. The License Agreement displays. Click
Continue
,
then click the
Agree
button.
7. The Select Destination window displays. Click on
the icon of the drive where your operating system
is installed.
8. The Easy Install window displays. Click
Update
.
External Hard Drive
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