Coolmax Gemini - Coolmax Gemini
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ASSEMBLY AND OPERATION
Now to the important stuff. How may steps will it take me to put this thing into operation? Well I have the official steps from the manual right here:
Installation Guide:
Loosen the screws from the rear plate. (Note: The two screws are captive; you don't have to remove them completely to slide out the tray. Just loosen these two screws, and you can pull out the tray)
Press the front panel and push it left or right and forward to open the front panel. And the device has to be even with the metal part of the bracket
Connect the 4pin power cable and the data cable
Use the enclosed screws to mount the device on the tray
After the device is installed, slide the tray into the aluminum case and tighten the two captive screws on the rear of the enclosure
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So let's see how I do. First loosen the captive screws and slide the drive tray out. Get my hard drive. Connect the IDE cable and power cable to the hard drive.
Now I have to bend the power and IDE cables so that I can align the hard drive screw holes with the 3.5 inch device holes on the bottom of the drive tray. Now just use the four smaller screws from the plastic bag to secure the hard drive.
Okay, Now slide the drive tray back into the drive enclosure and finger tighten the two captive screws. You can see how much room there is inside the enclosure for air to pass over the drive. At this point the front panel should be in place however mine is still in pieces. Well now to connect the power adapter and the USB cable and I'm ready for business.
Now this may be ghetto but I wanted to see what the finished product would look like completely assembled. So with the help of some super glue and scotch tape, I got the front panel back on the drive enclosure. I couldn't do anything about that crack line showing. The last picture shows the drive enclosure sitting on top of my PC. It doesn't really look that out of place at all. It would look more at home sitting on top of a silver case but hey, I don't have one of those.
Okay, after plugging in the power adapter and the USB cable and then flipping the on/off switch I was greeted with this lovely little warning box from Windows XP. I was kind of perplexed since I know that all my USB ports are USB v2.0 compliant and I have the USB v2.0 driver from Microsoft loaded. Well I performed the steps to remove a USB device and then connected it back up and lo and behold, no warning box.
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Just to be sure that all is well, I check in Device Manager for the USB device properties and checked My Computer to make sure the drive was listed. It showed up as Local Disk H: So now it's on to test this baby.
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