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PRODUCT MANUAL
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G DRIVE
Portable USB and FireWire®
g-technology.com
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®® Table of Contents G G DRIVE DRIVE Welcome to G-DRIVE mobile Table of Contents Safety & General Use Safety Precautions ................................................... 4 Backup Your Data .................................................... 5 About Your G-DRIVE mobile Introduction .............................................................. 7 What’s in the Box .................................................... 8 System Requirements ............................................ 8 Over
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® G DRIVE Safety & General Use • Safety Precautions ......................................... p.4 • Backup Your Data ........................................... p.5
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® Safety & General Use G DRIVE Safety Precautions The G-DRIVE® mobile’s warranty may be void as a result of the failure to respect the pre-cautions listed here. If you detect a problem with your drive, please contact our Technical Support department. If the product is returned with damage caused by improper handling, the warranty will be void and liability will rest with the user. Please read our Limited Warranty. • Servicing: Your drive contains no user-serviceable parts. If it appears to
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® Safety & General Use G DRIVE Backup Your Data The disk drive contained in your G-DRIVE mobile device is a delicate electronic instrument and is susceptible to damage due to excessive physical shock. Under no circumstances will G-Technology® be held liable for the recovery or restoration of lost data. Any loss, corruption or destruction of data while using a G-Technology drive is the sole responsibility of the user. Make two backups To help prevent the loss of your data, we highly recommend
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® G DRIVE About Your G-DRIVE mobile • Introduction .................................................... p.7 • What’s in the Box .......................................... p.8 • System Requirements ................................. p.8 • Overview of the Drive ............................... p.9 • Easy Installation for Mac .......................... p.9 • Disconnect the Drive ................................. p.10
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® About Your G-DRIVE mobile G DRIVE Introduction Thank you for purchasing the G-DRIVE mobile from G-Technology. G-DRIVE mobile hard drives are the ideal storage solutions for people on the go. G-DRIVE mobile is the perfect compliment to your Mac® laptop and other portable computers. Weighing in at less than 9 oz., the drive offers a stylish look with a heavy duty feel and is perfect to store or backup your important documents, music, digital videos and digital photo files. Back up all the
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® About Your G-DRIVE mobile G DRIVE What’s in the Box The following items are included in the box: • G-DRIVE mobile • (1) USB 3.0 cable (2.0 compatible) • (1) FireWire® 800 cable • Quick Install Guide If any items are missing, please contact G-Technology at g-technology.com/support. System Requirements G-DRIVE mobile supports the folllowing Operating Systems. The drive is set up at the factory for use with Mac OS® systems, and formatted as ‘HFS+ with Journaling’. Mac: Mac OS 10.6 + an
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® About Your G-DRIVE mobile G DRIVE Overview of the Drive This diagram shows the helpful features of your G-DRIVE mobile. A Power & Activity LED is on the front of the unit. Two FireWire ports and a USB port are on the rear. The Activity light will glow when power is applied via a USB or FireWire port. It will flash brighter as data is transferred to or from the hard drive. Easy Installation for Mac G-DRIVE mobile easily attaches to your computer via the USB or FireWire port. Simply use
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® About Your G-DRIVE mobile G DRIVE Disconnect the Drive A great feature of G-DRIVE mobile is its ability to be connected and disconnected while your computer is running. To prevent failures and/or data loss, it is important to follow the steps below when disconnecting or ‘unmounting’ the drive from your computer. 1. Before disconnecting the drive, unmount the system by simply dragging the G-DRIVE mobile icon to the trash located in the dock. Keyboard shortcut: Select the drive icon and
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® G DRIVE Using Your Drive on Mac • Use with Time Machine ............................. p.12 • Initialize Drive for Mac ............................... p.14 • Restore the Drive Icon ............................... p.17 • Reformat with Partitions ........................... p.19
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE Use with Time Machine G-DRIVE mobile works perfectly and easily with Time Machine. Time Machine is an application that ships with your Mac and provides automatic backup for your files. The following steps will quickly set up G-DRIVE mobile with Time Machine. 1. When you attach G-DRIVE mobile for the first time, the Time Machine dialog box should automatically appear. Click the Use as Backup Disk button. 2. If the Time Machine dialog box did
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE 3. I n the dialog box that appears, select the G-DRIVE mobile. Click the Use for Backup button. 4. Make sure the Time Machine switch is set to ON. You can set its options by clicking the Options button. Do this to choose volumes, folders or files you do NOT want to backup. G-DRIVE mobile will now back up your important files automatically with Time Machine. It’s that easy! p.13
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE Initialize Drive for Mac G-DRIVE mobile was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS. You can reinitialize if you would like to quickly erase the contents of the drive. Here are the steps. 1. F irst, open the Disk Utility program. This application is located on your hard drive under Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. The window below will appear. Your G-DRIVE mobile will be displayed in the left-hand column. 2. S elect th
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE 4. Click the Format pop-up and choose the Format option that you prefer. • Mac OS Extended (Journaled): Use this format if you intend to use the drive for Time Machine or to create a separate bootable installation of the OS. • Mac OS Extended: Use this format for best performance and media storage. 5. Click the Er ase button in the lower right corner of the window. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to erase the G-DRIVE mobile pa
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE. 6. Click on the Erase button to continue. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will show the progress of the disk’s reformatting. 7. After the drive is reinitialized, you should automatically see the Time Machine dialog box. • Click the Use as Backup Disk button if you want to use the drive with Time Machine. For more info using the drive with Time Machine, go here
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE Restore the Drive Icon If the G-DRIVE mobile drive icon was erased during the reinitializing process (see previous section), you can restore the icon with the following easy steps. NOTE: This process is not required for the operation of G-DRIVE mobile. However, it will make your drive’s appearance on the computer desktop look nicer and more accurate. 1. T o get the G-Technology Icon package, go to g-technology.com/support and navigate to your product. Th
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE 4. Select the G-DRIVE mobile icon on your desktop and press Command+I. This opens its Get Info window. (below left) 5. Select the default icon in the Get Info window. (below left) 6. Press Command+V to paste the custom G-DRIVE mobile icon into the Get Info window. (below right) The icon for your G-DRIVE mobile has been restored and you can close the Get Info window. Your drive is now fully ready for use! p.18
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multiple ® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE Reformat with Partitions ‘Partitioning’ a hard drive is the process of dividing a hard drive into separate, discrete sections called ‘volumes’. Each volume works like a separate disk. You can create up to 16 different partitions on a hard drive in the OS and each partition can be a different size and format. With hard drives getting bigger, it is useful to partition your hard drive so sections of its space can be used for different purposes.
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® ® Using Your Drive on Mac G DRIVE 2. Select the FireWire or USB icon – not the G-Technology drive icon – by clicking it in the left-side column. 3. Click on the P artition button in the main window. 4. Select the number of partitions you would like from the Volume Scheme menu. Below, we have selected ‘2 Partitions’ to create two partitions. p.20
