Hard Drives Knowledge Base

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Cobian Backup 9 Support

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

Please visit http://www.cobiansoft.com/forum/ for support with your Cobian Backup 9 Software.Note: Kanguru does not provide technical support for the Cobian Bac...

Expanding a Single Volume Beyond 2TB

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

How do I get my computer to recognize single volume that is larger than 2TB?If you installed two HDDs in the a QSX enclosure that when combined have a capacity...

External hard drive is detected as Read-only on Mac OS X

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

After connecting a Kanguru hard drive to a Mac computer, the device is being recognized as read-only and files cannot be copied to it. If Mac OS X is recognizi...

FAT32 File System Limitations

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

FAT32 File System LimitationsKanguru thumb drives and hard drives came pre-formatted in FAT32 file system until 2018. FAT32 is compatible with most operating sy...

Formatting the Kanguru UltraLock using Linux OS

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

Due to an incompatibility with the Disks application on certain Linux distributions, the Kanguru UltraLock should be partitioned using the built-in tool fdisk N...

Formatting Your Hard Drive

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

Formatting Instructions for Your Kanguru DriveThe following instructions are for formatting of our hard drive/flash memory based products. In most cases, you wo...

Hard Drive is Showing Wrong Capacity

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

When viewing my device on a computer, the capacity displayed does not match the capacity advertised.Often when you purchase a drive, the capacity displayed by t...

Hard Drive not Detected by Windows Server 2000

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

Please make sure that you have Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 installed. Service Pack 4 provides necessary updates for the Windows mass storage device drive...

LED Indication Light QSX Information

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

What do the blinking LED indicator lights on my QSX mean? Blinking LED's give you an indication of the drive health of the hard drives installed in the QSX. Bel...

Partitioning Your Kanguru Hard Drive

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

Creating a Partition on Your Kanguru DriveThe following instructions are for creating partitions on any of our hard drive/flash memory based products. In most c...

Verifying your RAID partition

Last Updated: 11th February, 2026

I just set my QSX to RAID1 mode. How do I verify that the RAID partition is built correctly?After you change the dip switches you will need to hit the reset but...