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Fantom Drives 

GreenDrive Hard Disk 

at a Glance

AC Adapter Port

Power Switch

USB 2.0 port

Disk Activity/Power 

Indicator Light

eSATA port

Security Lock Slot

How to Safely 

Dismount and Turn Off 

Your GreenDrive

What do 'mounting' and 'dismounting' mean? When a device 

such as a hard drive is mounted, that means the computer 

‘sees’ the device and is able to communicate with it. When you 

dismount a device, the computer no longer sees it. The device 

may still be running but the computer cannot access it, as 

though the device no longer exists.

Never turn off or unplug a hard drive without dismounting it first. 

Doing so could cause data on the drive to be lost or damaged.

How to safely dismount and turn off the 

drive with the computer running

Mac Users

Drag the icon for the External Hard drive to the Trash. The drive will 

dismount and you can then safely turn if off. You may then unplug the 

power cord and data cable if you want to disconnect the drive.

PC Users

1. Locate the System Tray. The System Tray includes the time 

display in the bottom right, and icons to the left of the time. One 
of the icons will be an hot plug icon ( ).  

2. Left-click on ( ). You will receive the alert message “Safely 

Remove..” followed by the drive description and drive letter for 

the device.

3.  Left-click on the appropriate device (with the drive letter 

matching the one used by the External Hard drive). After a few 

seconds, Windows will give you a message that it is safe to 

remove the device.  

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Страница 2: ...losest to your Fantom Drives unit and right click on the corrolating right hand box In the pop up menu that appears select Delete Partition The description will change to say Online Unallocated Right click on the box and select Create New Partition in the pop up menu When the Partition Wizard appears select Primary Partition and click Next Click Next in the next dialog selecting the default value ...

Страница 3: ...XP but my Vista machine does not allow me to delete or modify files on the drive A Windows Vista and XP handle file permissions differently In Windows XP the default user group has full permissions to every volume whereas in Vista they do not To fix this condition you need to grant the users group modify privileges to the drive 1 Right click the drive letter in Explorer and select properties 2 Cli...

Страница 4: ...format it It was already formatted and it contains data A1 Run a disk repair utility on the drive A2 Perform permission repair on your system drive Open the disk utility located in Applications Utilities Disk Utility app Select your system drive usually the first disk listed and click Repair Disk Permissions in the First Aid Tab A3 Restart your computer As soon as the bootup chime sounds press and...

Страница 5: ...imal notation one megabyte MB is equal to 1 000 000 bytes and one Gigabyte GB is equal to 1 000 000 000 bytes Many operating systems use the binary base 2 numbering system to describe disk capacity In the binary numbering system one megabyte is equal to 1 048 576 bytes and one gigabyte is equal to 1 073 741 824 bytes Simply put decimal and binary translates to the same amount of storage capacity Q...

Страница 6: ...ata on the drive to be lost or damaged How to safely dismount and turn off the drive with the computer running Mac Users Drag the icon for the External Hard drive to the Trash The drive will dismount and you can then safely turn if off You may then unplug the power cord and data cable if you want to disconnect the drive PC Users 1 Locate the System Tray The System Tray includes the time display in...

Страница 7: ...r your computer Contact your authorized Fantom Drives reseller for further details 4 Flip the power switch located on the back of the GreenDrive to the ON position labelled Once the drive is powered up your computer should recognize it and the drive will be ready to format Optimizing Windows Caching Algorithm By default Windows XP optimizes caching for performance on external drives Windows Vista ...

Страница 8: ...umes will appear Select the GreenDrive Disk The Disk Management Console can be accessed by right clicking on the My Computer icon and selecting Manage from the drop down menu Disk Management is found under Storage in the resultant window For an illustrated guide please see http www fantomdrives com helpdesk faq 2 Right click on the drive letter and select Format in the pop up menu The Format dialo...

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