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2.Plug the other end of the FireWire cable into an available FireWire port on the back of the drive.
The installation is complete and your Maxtor OneTouch II drive is ready to use!
If you did the Full Installation, including Retrospect Express, we encourage you to go to the next section to setup the Maxtor OneTouch button for easy, automated backup of your entire computer, anytime, at the touch of a button!
Setting Up Bootable Backup with the OneTouch Button
The following steps will provide you with a complete bootable backup of your Macintosh computer.
Bootable backup works with FireWire only.
When finished, you will have a backup of your entire computer, as well as the ability to start up your computer from your Maxtor OneTouch II drive.
Before you begin, make sure the Maxtor Install CD is NOT in your
The bootable backup option requires either using the entire OneTouch II drive for the backup copy or creating a dedicated disk partition for the backup copy. If you wish to store any files on the OneTouch II drive that are not included on the system drive you plan to copy, they must be stored in another partition on the OneTouch II drive.
Prepare your Maxtor OneTouch II Drive
1.Select your system drive in the Finder and select Get Info from the File menu. Write down its capacity, it is listed here as “Capacity: xxx.xx GB”.
2.Open Apple’s Disk Utility program (located in the Applications/ Utilities folder)
3.Select your Maxtor OneTouch II drive in the list and click on the Partition tab
The following step will erase everything that currently exists on your Maxtor OneTouch II drive. Check your drive carefully to make sure there are no files on it you wish to keep.
4.Click on the Volume Scheme
5.Select the first partition in this list and type in the capacity of your system drive (you checked in step #1 above) to the Size field. In the Name field, enter the name Maxtor Bootable
Backup.
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