Buffalo HD-PTU2 User Manual

MiniStation HD-PTU2

Portable USB Hard Drive

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MiniStation USB Hard Drive HD-PTU2

Thank you for purchasing a Bualo MiniStation portable hard drive.

Package Contents

• MiniStation Portable Hard Drive

• USB Extension Cable

• Quick Setup Guide

• Warranty Statement

Installation

Slide & Pull the USB connector from MiniStation.

Plug the USB connector into a USB port on the computer or device you are

adding the MiniStation to.

MiniStation will install automatically.

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Installation(Continued)

On a Windows computer, the new drive will be available in (My) Computer.
By default it will use the rst available drive letter and will be named HD­PTU2. With a Mac, the new drive will appear on the desktop and will be
named HD-PTU2.

drive appearing in VISTA

drive appearing in XP

drive appearing in MacOS

Format

By default, the MiniStation is formatted with FAT32, allowing it to be used
with OS X, Windows, and Linux operating systems. If you’re going to use
it with programs that generate lesizes larger than 4GB, such as backup
or video editing software, reformat the MiniStation as an NTFS drive
(Windows), a Mac OS Extended drive (Mac), or an XFS drive (Linux).

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