Verbatim INSIGHT PORTABLE HARD DRIVE User manual

InSight Portable

Hard Drive

User Guide

English

ser Gui

lis

Intro

uction

nSight is an innovative portable disk drive that allows you to view in

ormation about your drive

even when it is not connected to a com

uter. Its uni

ue cholesteric li

uid cr

stal dis

(LCD)

aintains its dis

ima

e without an

ower source. You can carr

InSi

ht with

ou wherever

o and be able to read the information on its dis

Dis

Information

he dis

shows the drive’s Volume Label on the to

line and the remainin

free s

ace (in

tes) on the bottom line. When usin

Windows XP or Mac OS, the dis

information is

dated each time

ou connect the drive to a com

uter and each time

ou do a safe removal o

rive (see

isconnecting Your Porta

e Har

Driv

)

. W

en using Win

ows Vista, t

isp

ay is up

ate

y w

en you connect t

rive.

o change the Volume Label in Windows, right-click on the drive in My Computer and then select

ename. To change the Volume Label in Mac OS, highlight the drive on the desktop and then

click on the drive name to edit. The new volume label will show on the display the next time the

display is refreshed.

he number and types o

characters that can be displayed depends on certain requirements o

he O

eratin

stem, the drive format and of the dis

itself. The drive format re

uirements

are summarize

•

Volume Label can contain up to 11 upper-case-only characters with the

ollowing

aracter exc

usions * ? / \

. , ; : + = [ ] < >

“

•

+Volume Label can not begin with a period and can contain up to 32 characters,

•

Volume Label can contain up to 32 characters with no exclusions.

olume Label strings longer than the display size will be truncated. Any characters in the Volume

abel string that are not in the display’s supported character set will be displayed as *.

Abou

t t

Har

Driv

he hard drive comes

re-formatted in FAT32 format. This format allows for o

eration with either

Win

ows or Mac OS.

ou want to format to NTFS

lease consult

our Windows documentation and select an

allocation unit size o

64K when

ormatting. Because calculating the amount o

ree space

arge NTFS

ormatted drives can take considerable time (up to 3 minutes in some instances),

there are special considerations

or using the InSight display

eature under NTFS:

• U

on connectin

the drive, the dis

will show “scannin

…” and the blue LED will ﬂash

while the drive is busy calculating the remaining

ree space. This process must complete

ully

before the dis

will refresh and the drive will show u

in M

Com

ute

• Upon sa

e removal, Windows may display the message indicating it is now sa

e to disconnect

the drive, even while the drive itself is still bus

calculatin

remainin

free s

ace. While the

drive is still busy calculating, the display will show “scanning …” and the blue LED will

ﬂ

ash.

Please wait for the ﬂashin

to cease and for the dis

to refresh.

• The dis

feature is not su

orted under NTFS with

artition t

e “GUID Partition Table

(

GPT)”

• Longer calculation time is required

or larger drive capacities.

• S

orter ca

ation time is re

uire

en usin

er a

ocation unit sizes. For t

is reason

we recommend selecting an allocation unit size o

64K when

ormatting to NTFS with this

uct.

you plan to use your hard drive only with computers running Mac OS, you may re

ormat to

HFS+. Consult your Mac OS documentation

or how to

ormat to HFS+. Please note these special

onsiderations when using the display

eature under HFS+

• Partition t

e “Master Boot Record” is su

orted for all HFS+ format t

• Partition type “Apple Partition Manager” is supported only

or Mac OS Extended and Mac OS

Extended (Journaled) format t

es.

• Partition type “GUID Partition Table” is not supported

or HFS

ormat types

• Whenever the

artition/format t

e is not su

orted, the dis

will read “Unsu

orted

ormat

”.

Capacity dependent on model. 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes/1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes/1 TB

= 1,000,000,000,000 b

tes. Some ca

acit

used for

re-loaded software, formattin

and other

unctions, and thus is not available for data stora

e. As a result, and due to differin

calculation

methods,

our o

eratin

stems ma

ort as fewer me

tes/

tes/terab

tes.

ctivit

LED

he blue LED located at the front of

our drive will come on to indicate the

ower-on state. The

ED will ﬂash durin

data access

Connectin

To Your Com

uter

nsta

our

orta

rive is extreme

sim

e –

ust use t

e inc

mini-USB ca

e to

connect

our hard drive to an

free USB

ort on

our com

uter. On Windows com

uters, a new

icon wi

ear in M

Com

uter re

resentin

our

rive. On Mac OS s

stems,

our

rive wi

appear on t

top as a new

Storing and Trans

erring Data

Once your

rive is connecte

to a computer, it can

e accesse

use

e any ot

removable disk. You can drag

ﬁ

les to your unit’s icon to copy them, navigate to your unit in Open

or Save dialog boxes, or delete

ﬁ

les stored on your unit. For in

ormation on copying, opening, or

deleting

ﬁ

les, consult your computer’s documentation.

nero BackItUp 4 Essentials so

tware

ero BackItUp 4 Essentials so

tware is included on the hard drive. Double click the nero

older on

he drive and then double click the setupx

ﬁ

le to start installation. The nero installation window

ill appear. Follow up the set up wizard to install the so

tware. Note: nero BackItUp So

tware is

onl

com

atible with Windows 2000 / XP / and Vista

Disconnectin

Your Porta

e Har

Drive

Your Ver

atim

orta

rive is

ot-

e; it can

e connecte

isconnecte

out restartin

our com

uter. To

isconnect

our Ver

atim

rive at an

time, sim

ply

orm the

ollowin

ste

s. You can also disconnect

our hard drive at an

time while

our

omputer is powered o

ff.

ote

lease be care

ul to

ollow the correct procedure when disconnecting your unit. You

InSight display will update its disk in

ormation during the disconnection procedure. Simply

nplugging the unit without

ﬁ

rst

ollowing the instructions below will cause the display to show

incorrect information and may result in damage to your unit and/or loss of data.

or Win

ows Users:

1. I

you have

ﬁ

les located on your drive open in any applications, close them

2. C

e Un

or E

ect Har

ware

utton in t

e S

stem Tra

3. Select your drive

rom the menu that appears.

4. After a moment, Windows will dis

a messa

e that

our hardware can be safel

or Mac

sers:

1. If

ou have ﬁles located on

our drive o

en in an

lications, close them

2. Locate the icon

or your drive on the desktop, and drag it to the trash.

ote

Please wait for the dis

to refresh full

before un

the drive. If

ou un

the

rive too soon

ou wi

not

et an u

ate

endin

our com

uter’s o

eratin

stem, the followin

ecial notes ma

ote 1

For Windows. If

ou are usin

a USB 1.1

ort on

our Windows com

uter, the followin

autionary note may appear on your

isp

ay: Hi-Spee

USB Device p

ugge

into non-Hi-Spee

USB

. T

oes not in

icate a pro

ecause t

rive is compati

e wit

USB 1.1 an

USB 2.0 ports. Simply close the message and proceed. However, in this case the drive will operate

nly at USB 1.1 speeds

For Mac OS X 10.2. Mac OS X version 10.2 will not mount any single FAT32-

ormatted (MS

OS) partition greater than 128GB. To work around this OS limitation, you may partition the drive

into smaller FAT32

artitions, or

ou ma

reformat the drive to HFS+ format.

nica

ort

you are experiencing di

fﬁ

culty installing or using your Verbatim product, please visit the main

Verbatim Technical Su

ort website at www.verbatim-euro

e.com. From this

ou can access

our librar

of user documentation, read answers to fre

uentl

asked

uestions, and download

available software u

dates. Althou

h most of our customers ﬁnd this content sufﬁcient to

ut them

on t

e ri

t trac

, t

e a

ists wa

s in w

ou can contact t

e Ver

atim Tec

nica

upport Team

irect

urope: For tec

nica

support in Europe e-mai

rivesupport@ver

atim-europe.com or ca

00 3883 2222 in the

ollowing countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,

ungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic o

Ireland,

ain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kin

dom. All other countries call +353 61 226586

Limite

Warrant

Terms

erbatim Limited warrants this product to be

ree

rom de

ects in material and workmanship

or a

eriod of 2

ears from date of

urchase. This warrant

excludes batteries. If this

roduct is found to

be defective within the warrant

eriod, it will be re

laced at no cost to

ou. You ma

return it with

our ori

inal cash re

ister recei

t to the

lace of

urchase or contact Verbatim

uct re

acement is

our so

e reme

er t

is warrant

, an

is warrant

oes not a

pply

normal wear or to dama

e resultin

from abnormal use, misuse, abuse, ne

lect or accident, or to

any incompatibility or poor per

ormance due to the speci

ﬁ

c computer so

tware or hardware used.

ERBATIM WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS OR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR

SPECIAL DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED, FOR BREACH OF WARRANTIES OR OTHERWISE. This

arranty gives you speci

ﬁ

c legal rights and you may also have other rights which vary

rom state to

e or coun

o coun

this document may be reproduced in any

orm or

means, for an

ose, without the ex

ress written

ermission of Verbatim Cor

oration.

All ri

hts reserved. All other brands and

roduct names referenced herein are

ert

of their

res

ective owners.

EEE Not

The Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), which entered into

orce as

uro

ean law on 13th Februar

2003, resulted in a ma

or chan

e in the treatment of electrical

ment at end-of-life

The WEEE lo

o (shown at the left) on the

roduct or on its box indicates that this

roduct must not be dis

osed of or dum

ed with

our other household waste. For

more information about electronic and electrical waste e

ment dis

osal,

recovery, an

ection points, p

ease contact your

oca

municipa

ouse

aste disposal service or shop

rom where you purchased the equipment.

FCC Complianc

This equipment has been tested and

ound to comply with the limits

or a Class B digital device,

ursuant to Part 15 o

the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection

against harm

ul inter

erence in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can

adiate radio

requency energy and, i

not installed and used in accordance with the instructions,

cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no

uarantee

hat interference will not occur in a

articular installation. If this e

ment does cause harmful

nterference to radio or television rece

tion, which can be determined b

turnin

the e

ment

off and on, the user is encoura

ed to tr

to correct the interference b

one or more of the followin

measu

es:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

• Increase t

e se

aration

etween t

e e

ment an

receiver

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit di

erent

rom that to which the receiver is

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician

or help.

E Dec

aration

EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

t is hereb

declared that this

roduct com

lied with the essential

rotection re

uirements of

Council Directive 89/336/EEC and its amendments on the approximation o

the laws o

the Member

States relating to electromagnetic compatibility

his declaration applies to all specimens manu

actured identical to the model submitted

esting/evaluation.

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RoHS Com

iance

This product is in compliance with Directive 2002/95/EC o

the European Parliament and o

he Council of 27 Januar

2003, on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in

electrical and electronic e

ment (RoHS) and its amendments

THI

DEVI

MPLIE

WITH PART 1

F THE F

PERATI

N I

T T

THE F

WIN

NDITI

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1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND

(

)

THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRED

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