Verbatim Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 manual Introduction, Connecting Portable Hard Drive

Introduction

Your product’s hard drive is a complex electronic storage system and should be handled with care, as you might treat a sensitive portable computer or other state-of-the-art consumer electronics product. Do not subject it to shock, high temperatures, or strong magnetic fields.

Note: Capacity dependent on model. Your operating system may report capacity as fewer gigabytes. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Connecting Portable

Hard Drive

Installing your Portable Hard Drive is extremely simple – just use the included mini-USB cable to connect your Portable Hard Drive to any free USB port on your computer. On Windows computers, a new icon will appear in My Computer representing your Portable Hard Drive. On Mac OS systems, your Portable Hard Drive will appear on the desktop as a new disk.

If your computer is running Windows 98 Second Edition, you will need some additional software that you can download from the Verbatim web site. Refer to the Technical Support section.

If you are using a USB 1.1 port on your Windows computer, the following cautionary note may appear on your display: Hi-Speed USB Device plugged into non-Hi-Speed USB hub. This does not indicate a problem because the drive is compatible with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports. Simply close the message and proceed. However, in this case the drive will operate only at USB 1.1 speeds.

If you connect your Portable Hard Drive and it doesn’t appear to power up, you may need to check the power settings. See the next section for more details.

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