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Instructions for installing for the USB Storage System
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Your USB/USB 2.0 Storage System has been designed to be easy to use and install.
This guide has been provided to help you correctly install the necessary drivers.
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* 1. Make sure that the IDE/ATAPI device is setting in the Master mode. *
* 2. External power supply is required if bus power is not enough to *
* support the device. *
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1. PC USERS
Your USB/USB 2.0 Storage System is compatible with any PC running Windows 98
/98SE/ME and Windows 2000/XP that has a USB/USB 2.0 port. Also can plug to USB
v1.1 port, but it only have USB v1.1 performance. It installs with the normal
Plug and Play process:
Windows ME and 2000/XP
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Connect the USB/USB 2.0 cable to the computer USB/USB 2.0 port. Upon plugging
the USB/USB 2.0 cable to the computer, driver will enumerate and will give
drive Icon automatically. No other drivers are required.
If your drive is not recognized by Windows ME/2000/XP and you are plugging your drive into a USB 1 port, use the following procedure:
1. Plug the USB storage device into the USB 1.1 port on you computer.
2. Run "Install.exe" in the \Windows USB 1.1 fix directory to install the patch driver.
3. Remove the USB storage device and plug in again.
Windows 98 and 98SE
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1) Place the "DRIVERS" CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2) Run G:\setup.exe to install driver. (G: representing the letter of your
CD-ROM driver)
3) Plug the USB/USB 2.0 cable into the PC.
4) Windows will find the new hardware.
5) Windows will find and locate the drivers from the disk and assign the
next available letter to the device.
The drivers are now loaded. If the storage device in your USB/USB 2.0 Storage
System is a hard disk, you must now partition and format the drive. This is
done through the use of the DOS utility FDISK. See your Windows documentation
if you are unfamiliar with FDISK. Note that you must run FDISK before you try
to format the drive and that you must run FDISK in a DOS window while Windows
is running.
2. Macintosh Users
Your USB/USB 2.0 Storage System is compatible with any Mac running at least
Mac OS 8.6 and having a USB/USB 2.0 port. Here is how you install the drivers:
Mac OS 8.6 to 9.0
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1) Place the CD-ROM you received with the USB/USB 2.0 Storage System in your
CD-ROM drive. There are a few drivers in the CD located in /MacOS8.x/
2) Double click on the "Gene USB ATA Installer" icon to start installing
ATA driver, click on "Install", "Continue" and "Quit" to complete the
installation.
3) Double click on the "Gene USB ATAPI Installer" icon to start installing
ATAPI driver, click on "Install", "Continue" and "Restart" to complete the
installation.
Mac OS 9.0.4 above
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1) Place the CD-ROM you received with the USB/USB 2.0 Storage System in your
CD-ROM drive. There are a few drivers in the CD located in /MacOS9.x/
2) Double click on the "Gene USB ATA Installer" icon to start installing
ATA driver, click on "Install", "Continue" and "Quit" to complete the
installation.
3) Double click on the "Gene USB ATAPI Installer" icon to start installing
ATAPI driver, click on "Install", "Continue" and "Restart" to complete the
installation.
Mac OS X above
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1) Place the CD-ROM you received with the USB/USB 2.0 Storage System in your
CD-ROM drive. There is a driver in the CD located in /MacOS10.x/
2) Double click on the "GeneIOUSBIDE110.pkg" icon.
3) When the installer is finished. Restart your computer at this time.
The drives for your USB/USB 2.0 Storage System are now installed. You now
need to initialize the media in the drive. To format your media (Mac OS 9):
1) Highlight the icon for the USB/USB 2.0 Storage System.
2) From the Finder menu located at the top of the screen, select Special, Erase
Disk. You can select either DOS or Macintosh formatting. If you intend to
use the device on both a PC and a Mac, select DOS formatting.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.