User manual

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 Blazer rear view 8
QUICK INSTALLATION 9
• How to Connect the Interface Cables - Connecting the Drive ___________________ 9
• Cable Types: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 11
INSTALLING YOUR DRIVE 12
• Blazer as a bootable device _____________________________________________ 12
• Disconnecting Your Drive 12
o PC _______________________________________________________________ 12
o Mac 13
• Reformatting Your Drive ________________________________________________ 13
o Reformatting via PC (Window based computers) 13
o Reformatting via Mac
_______________________________________________ 13
• Important Note 13
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How to Daisy-Chain through FireWire ports to your Blazer Drive at one time _____ 14
PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING THE BLAZER DRIVE ON A MAC OS 15
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 15
• Important Notes 15
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to HFS+ ___________ 16 - 24
PARTITIONING & FORMATTING the Drive on Windows 2000, XP, VISTA & Windows 7 25
• Warning _____________________________________________________________ 25
• Important Notes 25
• Different ways to get to the Control Panel __________________________________ 26
• Instructions upon reaching the Control Panel 28
• Instructions for Partitioning and Formatting from FAT 32 to NTFS _____________29 - 34
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