Setup
The hardware setup for the TVisto is identical to that for any hard-drive enclosure: Take out a few screws, open the case, connect the power and data cables to the drive, close the box up and you are done. I found the enclosure to be a bit cramped, and I was worried about damaging cables as I forced the drive in, but all went smoothly and that part of the setup took just 10 minutes. If you are comfortable with cracking the case on your PC to install drives or memory this will be a cake walk.
Once you have the drive installed, you connect it to your PC via a USB cable, power it up, and it should quickly appear as a removable drive. You can then format it as an NTFS, Mac OS Extended, or FAT32 drive (yes, this means you can use it with virtually any O/S).
The next part of the setup gives you a hint about the simplistic nature of the software driving the TVisto. The instructions make it very clear that you have to create the folders shown in the figure below with exactly the correct names: Firmware, Movies, Music, and Pictures. As you will see when using the TVisto, there isn't a complicated database for music and video like you have with iTunes or Windows Media Player--the TVisto simply browses through folders, and it expects your media to be stored in the folder with the appropriate name.
Once you have the folders created, copying media from your PC is simply a drag-and-drop project, copying media files of the appropriate type to the correct folder. As you'll see later, large collections need to be organized at this point using a system of nested folders, and that is entirely up to you to do.
