Data Locker

FIRST TIME USERS

The Data Locker requires 5 Volt and 500mA of current from a USB port. Older computers and USB hubs may not provide sufficient power to operate any type of external hard drive. Please check with your PC maker to ensure that your USB port is adequately powered. If your computer can not deliver adequate power, you may be required to use both USB connectors of the included “Y” cable. If your computer has a non-powered USB port, please contact Data Locker about purchasing an option AC adaptor.

STEP 1 : Connect the included USB Cable to the Data Locker as illustrated. Ensure that the DATA AND POWER prong of the “Y” cable is plugged into the computer. The second prong is for additional power and may or may not be required depending on the power output of your USB port.  

STEP 2 : TURN THE POWER SWITCH ON.

STEP 3 : ENTER THE DEFAULT PASSWORD “000000”

STEP 4 : IMMEDIATELY PRESS THE “SETUP” OPTION ON THE TOUCH SCREEN If “Setup” is not selected within 5 seconds the Data Locker will automatically connect to the host computer.

STEP 5 : PRESS “CHANGE PASSWORD” ON THE TOUCH SCREEN

STEP 6 : TOUCH THE SCREEN AND ENTER THE DEFAULT PASSWORD “000000”

STEP 7 : TOUCH THE SCREEN AND ENTER A NEW PASSWORD FROM 6 TO 18 DIGITS LONG

WARNING : YOUR PASSWORD CAN NOT BE RECOVERED OR RESET WITHOUT LOSING ALL OF YOUR DATA. MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR PASSWORD IN A SECURE LOCATION.

STEP 8 : TOUCH THE SCREEN AND RECONFIRM YOUR NEW PASSWORD FINISHED : YOUR DATA LOCKER IS NOW READY FOR USE WITH YOUR NEW PASSWORD

Hard Drive Initialization and Formatting Instructions

For Macs, see section 8.1.

After you have successfully installed the hard drive, you need to partition and format it.

1. Many hard drives come with installation software that automatically partitions, formats, and guides you through the process of copying the contents of your old hard disk onto your new hard disk. Instructions vary, but typically you boot your computer from a floppy disk or CD-ROM. Follow the instructions that came with your hard drive.

2. If your new hard drive didn't come with installation software, you can do it yourself without too much trouble.

3. Just start up Windows XP and open the Disk Management console by going to Start, right-clicking My Computer, and selecting Manage.

4. Sometimes Windows XP recognizes the new drive and automatically launches the Initialize And Convert Wizard. If that happens, click Next twice to get to the Select One Or More Disks To Initialize screen and check the Disk X box, where X is your drive's disk number listed on the bar in Disk Management. (There's usually only one disk listed on the Select Disks To Initialize screen.) Finally, click Next and then Finish.

5. If the wizard doesn't start, you can initialize the drive manually. Right-click the bottom bar with red and white dot in Disk Management and select Initialize Disk (see Figure 1).

   

   Figure 1: Select Initialize Disk.

6. This may start the wizard, or it may just bring up the Initialize Disk screen. If it brings up the screen, confirm that there is a check mark next to Disk X and click OK.

After your new hard drive is initialized, look at the bar at the bottom right of the Disk Management screen; it represents the new drive and it should display the size of the hard disk and the word %u201CUnallocated.%u201D Next, you have to create a partition and then format the disk.

1. Right-click the bar representing your new hard drive and select New Partition (see Figure 2).

   

   Figure 2: Right-click the bar and select New Partition.

2. This launches the New Partition Wizard. Click Next on the Welcome screen.

3. Select Primary Partition and click Next.

4. Specify the partition size. The easiest choice is to just click Next; this uses the entire drive as one large partition (see Figure 3).

   

   Figure 3: Specify the partition size.

5. If you want to assign your new drive a specific drive letter, select the letter you want from the pull-down menu. Otherwise accept the drive letter provided by Windows and click Next.

   Note:  You can always reassign a new drive letter later using Windows Disk Management.

6. Select Format This Partition With The Following Settings and at File System choose the default, NTFS (see Figure 4).

   

   Figure 4: Format the drive and select the NTFS file system.

7. Check your selected settings and click Finish to begin the format.

8. In Disk Management, the new hard drive bar should now be labeled "New Volume"  with its new drive letter. Below that should be the size of the drive and the word "Healthy" (see Figure 5).

   

   Figure 5: Disk Management should show your hard drive as "Healthy."

9.1  Formatting your hard drive for Mac Users

Mac Users will have to format the hard drive to the FAT format since Macs are not able to write to NTFS formatted drives.

To do this, open up Disk Utility which can be found under Applications.

Click on the hard drive in the menu on the left.

Click on the Partition tab.

Change the format to MS-DOS (FAT) and follow the instructions from there.

FCC DECLARATION OF CONFORMANCE

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help