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After the Clone
Once the transfer is complete, you are ready to install your new hard drive.
Turn off the laptop and disconnect the SATA Wire with hard drive. Disconnect
the Laptop’s AC adapter, and remove the laptop battery to reduce the risk of
damage or electrical shock.
Consult the Computer’s User Manual for instructions on how to remove the
original hard drive from your computer. Some laptops may have the disk
drive mounted under a cover. Other laptops may have the original drive
mounted inside a “drive caddy” to allow quick removal of the drive from the
laptop (although it might appear that the drive caddy and the SATA Wire drive
are not the same, once you open-up the drive caddy you will find an identical
hard drive inside). If the hard drive is mounted inside a drive caddy, carefully
remove the hard drive from the caddy. Be careful not to damage the hard
drive pins or any custom connectors. The hard drive may have a connector
covering the pins. Please take note of all connectors and their orientation.
Remove the original drive and replace it with the new one. If the laptop drive
is mounted inside a caddy, install the new drive into the caddy and then
insert the assembled caddy back into the computer. For specific instructions,
please refer to your computer’s User Manual or manufactures’ web site.
Boot the laptop from your new hard drive. The new hard drive should boot up
as though it was the old drive.
Using the SATA Wire as a external backup drive
WARNING: Formatting a Hard Drive will erase everything on the drive!
Please do not reformat the original drive until you have verified that your new
drive is working properly.
After successfully copying everything over to your new drive, the SATA Wire
with old hard drive can be used as an external USB backup drive. At this
point we recommend that you wait until you are certain that your new hard
drive is working properly. When you are certain that your system is working
properly, follow these basic steps listed below to use the SATA Wire with old
drive as a backup drive.
Install the old hard drive into the SATA Wire. (
1.
Please refer to Page 5
for hard drive installation instructions.)
Connect the SATA Wire to your system.
2.
Reformat the old hard drive (See FAQ #4 on page 26 of this manual for
3.
a link to the Microsoft website with complete instructions for both XP,
Vista & 7)
Follow instructions in the appropriate section of this manual for cloning to
4.
create a full bootable backup or just use as an external storage device.
