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QuickStart 

Installation Guide

 

 

Windows & Mac

Thank you for choosing Fantom Drives!  Your Fantom Drives GreenDrive 

has been built to the highest standard of quality and workmanship and, 

when used according to the instructions in this guide, will provide years of 

trouble-free operation.  We at Fantom Drives take great pride in bringing 

personal satisfaction to each of our customers.

Your Fantom Drives' disk drive is compatible with all  USB-capable Apple 

Macintosh computers running Apple® Mac® OS 10.4 (or greater) and 

PC-Compatible computers running Microsoft® Windows ® XP, Vista, 

Seven, and Windows Server® 2003/2008.  

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The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice.  While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation 
of this document to assure its accuracy, Fantom Drives assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this document, or from the use of the 
information contained herein.

Fantom Drives  reserves the right to make changes in the product design without reservation and without notification to its users.
Fantom Drives and the Fantom Drives Logo are registered trademarks of BNL Technologies, Inc. Macintosh, MacOS, and the MacOS logo are trademarks 
of Apple Computer Inc. Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other names and logos are 
property of their respective owners.

Copyright © 1999, 2012 Fantom Drives.  All rights reserved.  This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form 
or by any means, in whole or in part,  without the prior written consent of Fantom Drives, 20525 Manhattan Place, Torrance CA 90501.

WARNING

 - TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT 

EXPOSE THIS APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE.

CAUTION

  -  TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK,  DO  NOT  REMOVE 

COVER (OR BACK).  NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE.  REFER SERVICING TO 

QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.

FCC Compliance Statements

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.  These limits 
are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installation.  This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate 
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular 
installation.  If this equipment does cause harmful interference to equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to correct the interference by one or more 
of the following measures:

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Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

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Increase the distance between the equipment and receiver

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Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected

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Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help

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Summary of Contents for GreenDrive

Page 1: ...rs Copyright 1999 2012 Fantom Drives All rights reserved This publication may not be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Fantom Drives 20525 Manhattan Place Torrance CA 90501 WARNING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT EXPOSE THIS APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE CAUTION TO REDUCE T...

Page 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 ...

Page 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...

Page 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...

Page 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...

Page 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...

Page 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 ...

Page 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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