Software and drive installation:

According to the instruction manual we first need to insert the Utility CD and install the Utility software (for Windows98 SE you also need to install the USB driver), as you can see if you don’t already have a PDF format reader you can install Acrobat Reader to access the User manual located on the utility CD.

Installation

Private folder software location

Setup complete

The software installation is very straight forward and only takes a few seconds and it completed successfully.

Let us look at how we can hook up the drive to our test system.

As you can see from our screen shot the drive hooks up simply as any other USB/IEEE 1394 (Firewire) device would including the power supply (our test unit is a USB only drive).

The INOi MeDrive was shipped formatted to FAT32 so unless we choose to format as NTFS we are ready to start using our drive right away.

First we will make a few folders on our INOi MeDrive to help us keep the media that we will copy better organized.

During installation with the Utility CD we have a program called “Private Folder Setup”, with this easy to use utility we can password protect up to 16 Private Folders by first clicking on the folder we want to protect then entering a 4 numerical code and clicking on “Mark as Private”. To then access this folder we simple enter the code.

Once the files are copied we need to shutdown the INOi MeDrive but first we need to use the Safely Remove Hardware Icon, you will find this Icon in your system tray:

Simple select you drive and click “Stop”, this will make sure all files are written to your drive before removing the USB2 cable. Now we can power down the INOi MeDrive by pressing and holding the power button in until the drive shuts down. Now it is safe to unhook the drive.

Now we will take a look at the options we have when hooking up our unit to our AV equipment (for this review we will be using a standard 27” Television to view our media files).

Here we see the available options we have for hooking up our drive to out television. For our testing we will be using the Composite Video Output

Now that we have the unit hooked to our television using the Composite Video Output and the power plugged in we can turn on the unit. We may want to change some device settings, so let’s take a look at navigating through the menus and see what options we have available.

We can see it’s easy to change the OSD and Audio

Now you will notice the other advanced audio settings

Here we have the advanced Video settings

Our final menu with screen saver, angle mark and closed caption options

On the next page we will take a look at copying and playing media files…

What’s inside the box

Copying and playing media files