How to assemble an 3.5" Black Cyclone II External hard drive ?

Step 1. Preparation

I. First of all ,make sure that you have got all the following ready(show in picture 1.): Black Cyclone II enclosure; 3.5" IDE hard drive; Screwdriver.

Step 2. Assemling

II.Remove the top & bottom cover plate from the main frame. If it is difficult to remove the bottom cover board, you can use the screwdriver, however please be aware there is risk to get injured by the screwdriver & the cover plate might if you are not careful.(show in picture 2.) It is not always necessary to take the bottom cover plate off to fix the screws as the hard drive can still sit in the frame securely without the aid of the screws.
III. Connect the power cable and IDE cable to the hard drive.(show in picture 3.)
IV. Push the 3.5" IDE drive inside as far as it can go, then fix the screws at the bottom of the enclosure(Picture 4).
V. Shut the top and bottom cover plate.
VI. OK! Enjoy it! (Picture 6).

Step 3. Use the Black Cyclone II portable hard drive:

• Connect the power cable, then switch on main power and the fan power.
• Connect the USB cable to a USB 2.0 port of the computer ( USB 1.1 port will also work but with limitations) ,the computer should start "Found new hardware wizard" in a few seconds, and the tray icon ( )will appear in the corner of the screen ().
• If the computer have sucessfully recognised the portable hard drive, but it is not listed in "My Computer", then you need to creat partition and format the hard drive. This step is exactly the same as if a new hard drive is fixed inside a computer, and the USB makes this step possible to be accomplished under Windows, a great news for those users who hate DOS.

  If the hard drive is new, it must be DOS partitioned before the drive hard can appear in "My computer" as a new driver (as E:), and this new driver (as E:) must be formatted before it can stored any data.If you don't know how to format a hard disk,please read the following introduction.

Step 4. Format a hard disk.

4-1.Partition & Format the portable hard drive in Windows 2000 & Windows XP

• Go to "Control Panel" --> "Administrative Tools" -->"Computer Management" -->"Disk Management", in Windows XP, the computer will automatically start initialize the new hard drive, just click "Next" to follow. Now you will see your new hard drive listed as "Disk 1" (as "Disk 2" if you have two internal hard drives; or as "Disk 3" if you have three internal hard drives). In Windows 2000, you need to right click on "Disk 1" (the new hard drive), then select "write signature".
• Now right click on the black bar corresponding to the new hard drive, select the "Create partition", and follow the screem intructions to do the partitioning and formatting.

4-2. Partition & Format the portable hard drive in Windows 98

• In Windows 98/, you need to click "Start" --> Run "Fdisk", choose option 5, then 1, then 1, after this completed, a new driver letter (such as E:) will be assigned to USB hard drive.
• Then run "Format E:" (please note E: is the new driver letter assigned!), when this completed, you can see the volume of the drive in Windows Explorer, and it is ready to store data.

Specifications

Click here - External hard drives Firewire USB2.0 - for specifications