Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product RX20-U2 Rosewill
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- 1 - Rosewill RX20-U2 USB 2.0 User Manual Rosewill 2.5” A T A to USB2.0 H i gh S peed External Hard Drive Enclosure T able of Content s Chapter 1 Introduction...... .................. ............... ................ ............... .......... P .02 Chapter 2 Package Contents.
- 2 - Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Rosewill RX20-U2 is a slim, com p act and ou t s t and i ng looking IDE to USB 2.0 external Hard Drive enclosure. The case is made of aluminum and as one of the small est enclosures available nowadays, a 2.5” HDD with a thickness of 9.
- 3 - Chapter 2 Package Content s (may vary between your product and the items stated below) 1. RX20-U2 ( A T A to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosu r e) 2.
- 4 - Chapter 3 Hardware Inst allation Guide 3.1 Exploded V iew (See Figure A) 1 2 3 5 4 Figure A.
- 5 - 3.2 Chassis Assembly Unscrew the two screws, then remove the back panel (See Figure B - D) Figure B Figure C Figure D.
- 6 - 3.3 Hard Drive Inst allation Connect the hard drive, inst all 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.
- 7 - Figure E Figure F Figure G.
- 8 - 3.3 System Set Up (See Figure H) COMPUTER Figure H.
- 9 - Chapter 4 Inst allation Procedure 4.1 Inst allation on Windows 98/SE (USB 2.0) T urn on your computer and start Windows Connect the RX20-U2 to your compute r ’ s USB port Driver In.
- 10 - Step 2 Figure 2 Step 3 Figure 3 RX20-U2.
- 1 1 - 4.2 Inst allation on Windows ME / 2000 / XP T urn on your computer and start Windows Connect the RX20-U2 to your compute r ’ s USB port No sep arate driver required, let Windo ws search and install it automatically Open “My Computer”, where you can see the external Hard Drive (see Figure 4) Figure 4 4.
- 12 - Chapter 5 Unplug Procedure 5.1 Windows 98/SE a. Single click (right mouse button) on the taskbar icon (see Figure 6) b. Click on popup message (see Figure 7) Figure 6 Figure 7 External Hardware Icon c. Click “OK” and remove the device (see Figure 8) Figure 8 5.
- 13 - 5.3 Mac OS Drag the icon to the trash bin and remove the device (see Figure 12) Figure 12.
- 14 - Attention!! T o assure no data will be lost, always fo llow the “unplug procedure”. If not, dat a could be lost and the following message will show up: For Windows 98/SE / ME For Windows 20.
- 15 - Chapter 6 Partitioning & Formatting Please be aware that this will destroy all your existing dat a on the drive, 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.
- 16 - Choose the drive you want to format and right click on it for further commands If you want to use it on many different OS including Mac, we recommend F A T32 Windows 2000, Windows XP Disk Manag.
- 17 - Mac OS Mac OS9.2 and older does not support creating part itions on an external drive. T o do 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 cr eate partitions on your external drive.
- 18 - Chapter 7 Performance T est T est Computer Motherboard ABIT KT7 CPU AMD Athlon 1.333 MHz System RAM (MB) 128MB USB 2.0 Host Controller NEC D720100AGM USB 2.
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