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Rosewill RX20-U2

 USB 2.0

 

User Manual

 

Rosewill

 2.5” ATA to USB2.0 High Speed External Hard Drive Enclosure 

 
 
Table of Contents 

 
Chapter 1 

Introduction................................................................................ P.02 

Chapter 2 

Package Contents...................................................................... P.03 

Chapter 3 

Hardware Installation Guide...................................................... P.04 

Chapter 4 

Installation Procedure................................................................ P.09 

Chapter 5 

Unplug Procedure...................................................................... P.12 

Chapter 6 

Partitioning & Formatting..............................................................P.15 

Chapter 7 

Performance Test..........................................................................P.18 

 
 

 

 
 
 

Summary of Contents for RX20-U2

Page 1: ...al Hard Drive Enclosure Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction P 02 Chapter 2 Package Contents P 03 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Guide P 04 Chapter 4 Installation Procedure P 09 Chapter 5 Unplug Procedure P 12 Chapter 6 Partitioning Formatting P 15 Chapter 7 Performance Test P 18 ...

Page 2: ...le nowadays a 2 5 HDD with a thickness of 9 5mm fits exactly Being small enough to fit in your pocket makes it very convenient for carrying your data while on the go no matter if used on a PC or a Mac 1 2 System Requirement a Hardware PC or MAC with USB interface b OS requirement Windows 98 SE Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Mac OS 8 6 and above 1 3 Product Dimension 12 5cm x 7 6cm x 1 3cm 4 92...

Page 3: ... 3 Chapter 2 Package Contents may vary between your product and the items stated below 1 RX20 U2 ATA to USB 2 0 External Hard Drive Enclosure 2 USB 2 0 Cable 3 CD with Driver ...

Page 4: ... 4 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Guide 3 1 Exploded View See Figure A 1 2 3 5 4 Figure A ...

Page 5: ... 5 3 2 Chassis Assembly Unscrew the two screws then remove the back panel See Figure B D Figure B Figure C Figure D ...

Page 6: ... 6 3 3 Hard Drive Installation Connect the hard drive install it and fasten the screws See Figure C G Figure C Figure D Hard Drive jumper settings Set to Master Hard Disk maximum thickness 9 5mm ...

Page 7: ... 7 Figure E Figure F Figure G ...

Page 8: ... 8 3 3 System Set Up See Figure H COMPUTER Figure H ...

Page 9: ...Installation on Windows 98 SE USB 2 0 Turn on your computer and start Windows Connect the RX20 U2 to your computer s USB port Driver Installation Insert the included driver CD and follow the onscreen instruction See Figure 1 3 Step 1 Figure 1 ...

Page 10: ... 10 Step 2 Figure 2 Step 3 Figure 3 RX20 U2 ...

Page 11: ...Computer where you can see the external Hard Drive see Figure 4 Figure 4 4 3 Installation on a Macintosh USB 2 0 High Speed only on Mac OSX Turn on your computer and start Mac OS Connect the RX20 U2 to your computer s USB port No separate driver required except if used under OS 8 6 where the USB support has to be at least version 1 41 The external Hard Disk will show up on the Desktop see Figure 5...

Page 12: ...ge see Figure 7 Figure 6 Figure 7 External Hardware Icon c Click OK and remove the device see Figure 8 Figure 8 5 2 Windows ME 2000 XP a Single click right mouse button on the taskbar icon see Figure 9 b Click on popup message see Figure 10 Figure 9 Figure 10 External Hardware Icon c Click OK and remove the device see Figure 11 Figure 11 ...

Page 13: ... 13 5 3 Mac OS Drag the icon to the trash bin and remove the device see Figure 12 Figure 12 ...

Page 14: ... 14 Attention To assure no data will be lost always follow the unplug procedure If not data could be lost and the following message will show up For Windows 98 SE ME For Windows 2000 XP For Mac OS ...

Page 15: ... so make sure you have a backup This step is usually only required the first time you install the HDD or if you have a factory new HDD Windows 98 SE Windows ME DOS command fdisk Type fdisk and press Enter Select Y Enter 5 to change the disk Select the drive you want to format Choose 1 and follow the instructions ...

Page 16: ...ight click on it for further commands If you want to use it on many different OS including Mac we recommend FAT32 Windows 2000 Windows XP Disk Management Program Select Disk Management Follow the Wizard Select My Computer then right click Æ Manage ...

Page 17: ... that you would need to purchase additional software Initializing is no problem on all OS For OSX please use the Disk Utility to format and create partitions on your external drive Select Disk Utility in the Utilities folder Choose your external drive and format it according to your requirement ...

Page 18: ...SB 2 0 Host Controller NEC D720100AGM USB 2 0 PCI expansion card Operating System Windows XP Hard Drive Model RPM Capacity Remark TOSHIBA MK2018GAP 4200RPM 15GB Test Data Model Read Write Random Read Random Write Unit Interface RX20 U2 11 2 7 5 5 0 2 7 Mbytes USB2 0 Copyright 2004 Rosewill Inc all Rights Reserved ...

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