Rocstor ROCPRO 900e - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NOTICES 4
• Safety Notices ________________________________________________________ 4
• General Notices
• Capacity Disclaimer ___________________________________________________ 4
• Care and Handling 4
GENERAL 6
• Introduction ___ ________________________________________________ 6
• Box Contents 7
• Minimum System Requirements _____________________________________ 8
• Connectors and Rocpro rear view 8
QUICK INSTALLATION 9
• How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive ___________________ 9
• Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB and SATA 10
INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 11
• Rocpro as a bootable device _____________________________________________ 11
• Disconnecting Your Drive 11
o PC _______________________________________________________________ 11
o Mac 12
• Reformatting Your Drive ________________________________________________ 12
o Reformatting via PC (Window based computers) 12
o Reformatting via Mac _______________________________________________ 12
• 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 14
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 14
• Important Notes 14
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ _______________ 15
PARTITIONING & FORMATTING the ROCPRO Drive on WINDOWS 2000, XP, VISTA, 7 24
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 24
• Important Notes 24
• Different ways to get to the Control Panel __________________________________ 25
• Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 27
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS _______________ 28
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