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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Chapter 1: Getting Started; Viewing the Online User’s Guide
  • Page 3 – Getting Started; DOS; Checking Your Tape-Drive Package; Check each item to ensure you have everything you need.
  • Page 4 – Installing Your External Tape Drive
  • Page 5 – Connecting the Hardware
  • Page 8 – If You Have Problems; Is the computer power cord plugged in?
  • Page 9 – Using the Tape Drive on Other Computers; To move the tape drive to another computer:
  • Page 12 – Installation Guide; Installing Colorado Backup for Your Operating System; Windows—page 17; Installing Colorado Backup for DOS
  • Page 13 – The following screen appears:
  • Page 14 – Select Install Colorado Backup for DOS.; The following screen appears.; Highlight Parallel Port and select OK.
  • Page 15 – TAPE; and press
  • Page 17 – Installing the Software; Installing Colorado Backup for Windows; Select the desired language or leave the default and click Next.
  • Page 19 – Accept the default setting by clicking on OK.
  • Page 23 – Installing Colorado Backup for Windows 95; and “Recovery Disk #2” to use in step 13.
  • Page 27 – Configuring the Drive for Windows NT 4.0; Start up your computer and log in with Administrative rights.; Select the desired language or leave the default. Click on Next.
  • Page 28 – Go to the Control Panel and choose the Tape Devices icon.
  • Page 29 – Go to the Drivers tab and click on Add.; necessary files are copied to your system.; Try the following suggestions:
  • Page 32 – Choosing Tapes for Your Tape Drive
  • Page 33 – Using Tapes and Caring for Your Drive; Inserting a Tape; You will feel it lock into place.
  • Page 34 – Removing a Tape; cartridge straight out.; Caring for Your Tape Drive; Colored strip
  • Page 35 – Minimum System Requirements; Hardware Requirements; Your computer must meet or exceed these requirements:; A CD-ROM drive to install the backup software.; See the operating system requirements on the following pages.; If your computer does not have a CD-ROM drive:
  • Page 36 – Colorado Backup for DOS Requirements; VER; MEM; CHKDSK; Colorado Backup for Windows Requirements; MB of RAM in Windows 3.1
  • Page 37 – Technical Information; Colorado Backup for Windows 95 Requirements; Installing Colorado Backup for Windows 95 requires:; MB of RAM; You can use the Windows NT Backup applet with this tape drive.; LAN Installation
  • Page 38 – What Affects Performance; IRQ 5 with I/O base address 278
  • Page 39 – Drive Specifications
  • Page 40 – Federal Communications Commission R.F. Interference Statement; User’s manual statement for VCCI class B product
  • Page 41 – Korean RRL Statement; FCC Declaration of Conformity
  • Page 43 – Software License Agreement for External Drives
  • Page 44 – Hewlett-Packard Limited Warranty Statement
  • Page 45 – Returning Your Drive
  • Page 48 – Customer Support Services; FAX
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Installation Guide

HP Colorado 5GB and 8GB External Tape Drives

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Viewing the Online User’s Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Checking Your Tape-Drive Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 2: Connecting the Hardware

Installing Your External Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
If You Have Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the Tape Drive on Other Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 3: Installing the Software

Checking Your Parallel Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Interchangeability of Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing Colorado Backup for Your Operating System. . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing Colorado Backup for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing Colorado Backup for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing Colorado Backup for Windows 95. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuring the Drive for Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

If You Have Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 4: Using Tapes and Caring for Your Drive

Choosing Tapes for Your Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Inserting a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Removing a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Caring for Your Tape Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 5: Technical Information

Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Colorado Backup for DOS Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Colorado Backup for Windows Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Colorado Backup for Windows 95 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
LAN Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

What Affects Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Drive Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Software License Agreement for External Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Returning Your Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Chapter 6: Customer Support Services

Support for Your Tape Drive and Colorado Backup Software . . . . . 46

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Summary

Page 2 - Chapter 1: Getting Started; Viewing the Online User’s Guide

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Page 3 - Getting Started; DOS; Checking Your Tape-Drive Package; Check each item to ensure you have everything you need.

Getting Started 3 G:\TW\Lori\Raptor\C4388-90100\exraptor1.fm Page 3Last Modified: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 8:33 pmPrinting date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 DOS If you installed the software from the Software Installation CD, the online User’s Guide is on your hard drive in the same directory as the s...

Page 4 - Installing Your External Tape Drive

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