SUNRICH TECHNOLOGY S-190 User manual

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3.5’’External SATA&PATAHDD Enclosure
USB 2.0 Interface
User Manual
Ver. 3.00
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Features
zChipset: JMicron JM20337
zData Transfer Rate: USB 2.0: 480Mbps
Specification
zSuitable for hard disk type: 3.5’’ SATA or PATA HDD
zInterface: USB 2.0
zPower Supply: DC12V
zSize: 212.0 * 118.0 * 33.0 mm
zConnectors:
1 x USB Type B Port
1 x DC Jack
zPower On/Off Switch
zLED Status
On Power On
zCooling Fan (Optional)
System Requirements
zWindows® 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP/2003 32/64bit, Mac OS 9.X
or newer
zOne available USB port

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Package Contents
z1 x Enclosure z1 x USB Cable
z1 x User Manual z1 x Driver CD
z1 x Power Adapter
Assembling the 3.5’’HDD Enclosure Kit
To begin using the 3.5’’ HDD Enclosure Kit, simply place your 3.5’’
Hard Disk Drive in the Enclosure Kit, and if required, install the
software.
Hard Drive Installation
Install a hard disk drive in the Enclosure Kit by completing the
following steps.

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1. Disassemble the rear
panel from the housing
by removing one screw
from each side of the
housing with a
screwdriver.
2. Push the bottom panel
out of the housing.

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3. Insert the IDE or SATA
cable into the hard drive,
and insert the control
board power cable into
the receptacle on the hard
drive.
4. Turn the enclosure so that
the bottom side is facing
up and insert the first
screw. Tighten the first
screw ensuring that
proper alignment is
maintained while
tightening. Repeat for the
three screws.

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5. Align the edges of the
hard drive platform and
carefully slide the
assembled platform into
the enclosure housing.
6. Fasten the rear panel to
the enclosure housing by
replacing the (2) screws
removed in step 1.
7. The Enclosure Kit is now assembled and ready for connection to a
computer.

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Connecting the Enclosure Kit to a Computer
Complete the following steps to connect the enclosure to a host
computer.
1. Connect the AC/DC power adapter, then turn on the power switch;
ensure that the blue LED indicator is active.
2. Insert the USB connector into the corresponding port.
3. Insert the USB connector into an available port on the computer.
Software Installation
Windows® ME/2000/XP and Macintosh
Just insert the USB interface cable into computer, the hard disk will be
recognized automatically.
Windows® 98/98SE
Windows® 98/98SE users must install the appropriate USB storage
driver by completing the following:
1. Boot-up computer into Windows. Don’t plug in the USB interface
cable of the 3.5’’ HDD Enclosure to the USB connector of your
computer.
2. Please insert the CD driver bound with 3.5’’ HDD Enclosure into
your CD-ROM Drive.

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3. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run.
4. Type D:\JM20337\Setup.exe, click OK.
(Change D:\ to match your CD-ROM drive letter)
5. When the driver installation is
complete, click “OK”.
6. Power on the 3.5’’ HDD Enclosure and plug-in a USB cable to the
USB connector port of the drive. Plug-in other end of the USB cable
to the USB port of your computer.
7. Windows will automatically
detect the drive and will use
the pre-installed driver to
setup the drive. Click My
Computer to check if the
device drive is properly
detected and the drive letter is
properly assigned (Drive E:)
8. If the drive is properly detected, the Safe Remover icon will also

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appear on the taskbar found on the button right side of the Windows
desktop screen.
9. You can also verify that the installation was successfully by doing
the following:
1) Right-click the “My Computer” icon and select “Properties”.
2) Select the “Device Manager” Tab.
In the Device Manger, we can find the new hard disk in the Disk drives.
And also can find JM20338 SATA, USB Combo and USB Mass
Storage Device in the Hard disk controllers.
Partition The External Hard Disk Drive
Using FDISK Under Windows® 98, 98SE/Me
FDISK is program to create one or more partitions of the hard disk,
after the partition was built and formatted, data can be write to the hard
disk.
To partition the external hard disk, you must execute FDISK under the
MS-DOS mode under Windows® 98SE/Me, please follow the steps:
1. Boot-up the computer into Windows® 98SE/Me System. Plug

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the external hard disk to computer, and make sure it is
recognized.
2. Go into the MS-DOS mode by click on Start ÖPrograms Ö
MS-DOS Prompt.
3. At the DOS prompt, type ‘FDISK’ and press Enter.
4. In the first screen of FDISK, answer the question: Do you want
to enable large disk support?
Y if you want to create a partition larger than 2GB(FAT32).
N if you want to create a partition small than 2GB(FAT16).
5. The next screen is ‘FDISK OPTIONS’,
IMPORTANT: you must type 5 on this screen to change the
current fixed disk drive, the default fixed drive set by FDISK is
your internal hard disk, if you don’t change it to the external hard
disk, the data of internal hard disk will be destroyed.
Note: If the option 5 doesn’t appear on this screen means the

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external hard disk is not installed properly, please check with
the software installation.
6. In the ‘Change Current Fixed Disk Drive’ screen, type the disk
drive number that assigned to the external hard disk(usually, the
external hard disk is the fixed disk drive number2).
7. Back to ‘FDISK OPTIONS’ screen, type 4to display the content
of the fixed disk drive, check the content to make sure the current
drive is the external hard disk
8. Now you can create(type 1) or delete(type 3) the partition of the
external hard disk.
9. After you finish FDISK, re-boot computer to activate these
changes.

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Using FDISK Under Windows® 2000/XP
Note: The external hard disk can’t works with ‘Dynamic Disk’
type. Do not upgrade the external hard disk to ‘Dynamic Disk’
type, always use it with ‘Basic Disk’ type.
1. To partition the external hard disk under Windows 2000 or
Windows XP, please plug the external hard disk and make sure it
is recognized, then.,
① In Windows 2000: Click Start ÖSettings ÖControl
Panel ÖAdministrative Tools ÖComputer
Management to open ‘Computer Management’ window.
② In Windows XP: Click Start ÖControl Panel Ö
Performance and Maintenance ÖAdministrative Tools
ÖComputer Management to open ‘Computer
Management’window.
2. Click on ‘Disk Management’ on the left part of this window, all
connected disk drives will be listed in the right part. Find out the
largest number of Disk #, for example, on the below picture, Disk
1 is the largest number, and it is the external hard disk. On the
right side of the Disk 1is the status of the partitions of this disk
drive, you can create a new or delete an exist partition by

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right-click on this area. The next steps will describe how to create
a new partition on this external hard disk.
Note:
If the hard disk in the hard disk kit is a whole new hard
disk with out any partition, when the Disk Management is
opened, a ‘Stop’ mark indicates this drive is an ‘Unknown’
type of disk(refer to the figure shown on right side). In this
situation,
Windows system won’t allow you to create partition with this
drive. In the meantime, you can:
① In Windows 2000: Window will start up the ‘Write
Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard’ immediately. You

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can use this ‘Wizard’ to initial the hard disk to the ‘Basic
Disk’ and can then create partition in the drive.
② In Windows XP: you can right-click on the ‘Stop’ mark,
and then click ‘Initialize disk’ to initial the hard disk to the
‘Basic Disk’ type and can then create partition in the drive.
3. If the type of the hard disk drive is ‘Dynamic’, you must change it
to the ‘Basic’. To do this, right-click on the status area(left area)
of Disk 1, and then click ‘Revert to Basic Disk’ from the options.
Wait for few seconds, the type of the hard disk drive will be
changed to ‘Basic’type.
4. To create a new partition in the external hard disk, right-click on
the right area of Disk 1, click on ‘Create Partition…’, the
‘Create Partition Wizard’appears, click Next.
5. Select ‘Primary partition’, click “Next”.
6. Specify the size that you want this partition to be, click “Next”.
7. Assign a drive letter for this partition, please use the default value,
and click “Next”.
8. Refer to the figure shown below, select ‘Format this partition
with the following settings’, choose the File System, and specify
a name for the Volume Label, select ‘Perform a Quick Format’,
then click “Next”.
9. Click “Finish”, now the formatting is proceed, after the process is

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done, the ‘Disk Management’ window is changed as below.
Make sure the status of the partition is ‘Healthy’.
10. Now, a partition is created in the external hard disk, you can write
data to it, and if you want, one or more partition can be created in
the same hard disk drive, just repeat the above steps.