Product manual

Spinpoint M9TU-USB 3.0 Product Manual REV 1.0

INSTALLATION

4.6 System Startup Procedure

Once the Spinpoint M9TU-USB 3.0 hard disk drive and along with the adapter board (if

required) have been installed in your system, the drive can now be partitioned and formatted

for operation. To set up the drive correctly, follow these instructions:

1. Power on the system.

2. Typically the system will detect a configuration change automatically. If so, then jump to step 5.

3. Connected Drive Detection normally as removable disk but cannot access drive folder, please create

partition & format first.

4. Perform the following steps that applies to your system: (example for XP)

I. Select Control Panel - Computer Management - Disk Manager in OS Utility.

II. Click the right mouse button of Selected USB device disk, and select New Partition.

III. Step 1. Click Next Button.

IV. Step 2. Select Partition Type and Click Next Button.

V. Step3. Select Partition Size and Click Next Button

VI. Step 4. Assign Drive Letter and Click Next Button.

VII. Step 5. Select File System, quick format option and Click Next Button.

VIII. Step 6. Click Finish Button

5. If the system recognizes the drive but experiences problem on properly handling the full capacity of the

drive, run Disk Manager utility program provided by Seagate and follow the instructions. The Disk

Manager utility program is available from Seagate on a floppy diskette, or downloadable from the Seagate

website at

http://www.seagate.com. If, after all these steps are successfully completed, your system will not

boot up, then contact technical support.

Table 4-2: Logical Drive Parameters

DESCRIPTION

ST1500LM008 ST2000LM005

Total Number of

logical sectors

Capacity

2,930,277,168 3,907,029,168

1.5TB 2TB

NOTES:

• The total numbers of sectors is calculated by (Cylinders x Heads x Sectors) of the selected drive

type.

• 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes

Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity.

• Windows 95 or 98 that use FAT16 file system will limit the drive’s logical partition at 2.1GB

per logical drive. Windows95 OSR2 or later allow for the FAT32 file system which provides

access to greater than 2GB of logical capacity.

• A low-level format is not required, as this was done at the factory before shipment.