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User’s Guide

Attention:

Download the new EZ Gig IV from Apricorn’s
website at:

http://www.apricorn.com/ezgig

Review the most current Velocity Solo FAQ’s
at:

http://www.apricorn.com/support.php

Velocity

Solo

Desktop SSD Upgrade Kit

Summary of Contents for Velocity Solo

Page 1: ...Attention Download the new EZ Gig IV from Apricorn s website at http www apricorn com ezgig Review the most current Velocity Solo FAQ s at http www apricorn com support php Velocity Solo Desktop SSD...

Page 2: ...rive to the Velocity Solo 7 Before Running the Software 8 Before running EZ Gig we recommend 8 EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 Vista 9 Changing the default Power Options 9 Upgrade Suite CD ROM boot...

Page 3: ...e 23 Avoid exclusive read access 23 Partitions 24 Resizing your partitions manually 25 Start Clone 26 Interupting the Cloning Process 27 Aborting the Cloning Process 27 Interupting the Verification pr...

Page 4: ...icorn EZ Gig IV Quick Start Guide To prevent ESD Electrostatic Discharge damage IMPORTANT HANDLING INFORMATION Use an ESD wrist strap or discharge static electricity by touching a grounded bare metal...

Page 5: ...ed 1 on the sticker on the front of the drive This is will come in handy when choosing the destination drive when cloning your drive with EZ Gig Power down the system and physically remove power cord...

Page 6: ...Power cable SATA cable SATA connector Power connector Optional Connecting an additional drive to the Velocity Solo SATA III connector Using a SATA data cable connect an additional drive to the SATA I...

Page 7: ...Velocity Solo drive is not detected check the drive and cable 3 connections and ensure that the Velocity Solo is installed correctly in the PCIe slot For Windows XP owners please visit the Velocity So...

Page 8: ...gment your hard drive using the Windows Disk Defragment Utility or a similar disk defragment utility on your internal hard drive 3 Backup any critical files or data 4 Attach the AC adapter to your lap...

Page 9: ...r of keyboard or mouse inactivity It will take more than 20 minutes to clone most of today s larger hard drives If the system goes into display is turned off or the computer goes to sleep during the c...

Page 10: ...from the CD ROM 1 Insert the Upgrade Suite CD into your CD ROM Drive 2 Turn on the Computer and go immediately into the system BIOS screen 3 Set the CD ROM as the First Boot device Save your changes a...

Page 11: ...atically verifies which Apricorn upgrade product is being used If used without one of Apricorn s upgrade products EZ Gig will not work EZ Gig Start Up Options After downloading EZ Gig from Apricorn s...

Page 12: ...o create a bootable floppy disk choose the desired drive at Floppy drive and click Create floppy To create a bootable CD DVD choose the desired drive at CD DVD writer and click Create CD DVD To create...

Page 13: ...13 www apricorn com Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig Click the Let s Get Started button to proceed 1 EZ Gig will then scan for connected drives This may take a few 2 moments...

Page 14: ...e you would like to copy from and in this case is the internal drive in your computer NOTE Both your computer s internal drive and the drive on the Velocity Solo will be denoted by the prefix AHCI or...

Page 15: ...ur Velocity Solo card NOTE Before installing your new drive on your Velocity Solo card take note of the drive part number This will be the Destination drive Select the drive on your Velocity Solo card...

Page 16: ...ext to continue go to page 26 or to deselect files from the cloning process press the Data Select button go to page 17 If you need to change your drive selection click the Back button At this point yo...

Page 17: ...ications from a fast smaller SSD boot drive while keeping your documents and media files on your original hard drive There are two ways to get to the Data Select feature If the Destination drive is sm...

Page 18: ...hted in orange and shown as a negative value EZ Gig will only proceed with a clone if the available capacity is positive i e the Destination capacity is larger than the Source capacity In order to dec...

Page 19: ...select the checkbox to the left under the Select Folders to Analyze column EZ Gig will then analyze the space used in the ajoining Space Used column To analyze the amount of space used by each folder...

Page 20: ...pdated amount for the Available Capacity value Once the Available Capacity value is positive you will have the option to Apply the changes Once you hit the Apply button you will be directed to the You...

Page 21: ...es approximately the double amount of time Choose this option according to your needs of copying and your time available Verify Copy SmartCopy enables you to clone your file systems in a fraction of t...

Page 22: ...py Special copy algorithm Can increase the regular copy speed up to double SafeRescue Special algorithm for data recovery Tries to recover as large areas on the drive as possible Can also stay turned...

Page 23: ...or of volumes which are used by other programs at the same time Avoid exclusive read access Usually EZ Gig when running on Windows at first tries to reserve the source drive for exclusive access This...

Page 24: ...in the Default mode EZ Gig will automatically resize your partitions according to the new hard drive space However EZ Gig also gives the option of keeping your partition sizes the same or allows you...

Page 25: ...ition is displayed in dark green while the additionally assigned space is displayed in light green The size of partitions displayed in black cannot be altered Free space not yet assigned to any partit...

Page 26: ...button to start the cloning process EZ Gig will keep you up to date with the status of the clone throughout the entire process with a progress bar and percentage completed Depending on your system si...

Page 27: ...stopped at anytime the aborted verification run will have no influence on the copied data The copy itself is already finished at that point of time When the final report is read EZ Gig will report tha...

Page 28: ...t a report of the cloning process click the Details button The final report will outline the number of sector copied read errors write errors and if verified will also report verification errors Once...

Page 29: ...y forcing your system to boot from 1 the Velocity Solo drive Go into your system s BIOS and change your boot order to the Velocity 2 Solo drive keeping your original drive for storage Entering your co...

Page 30: ...n the card and any standard SATA drive Laptop or Desktop style can be attached using the open SATA connector It will work with both Generation 1 and 2 SATA drives but best performance is seen with Gen...

Page 31: ...slim computer See the image below to see the width of a Standard Desktop System 8 What software is included with my Velocity Solo PC Software Includes EZ Gig IV with Data Select EZ Gig for Windows is...

Page 32: ...on port on the back of the Solo is a SATA 3 connection that may provide additional performance to any disk attached to it but you are not required to use it Your original disk can remain attached dire...

Page 33: ...ollowing steps at best in the indicated order Try again to boot the program perhaps with without cold start Create once again a bootable disk page 10 Floppy disk format the floppy disk no quick format...

Page 34: ...ive areas on the respective medium However general problems with the hardware can possibly also cause putative read and write errors This is mostly noticeable by a very high number of displayed errors...

Page 35: ...trollers support this standardized programming interface there are some controllers which have only a proprietary programming interface Connect the corresponding drives to another controller PCI IDE c...

Page 36: ...defective sectors takes place after the copying of all intact areas has been finished The process can then be aborted if it takes too long without losing the data of the intact areas Read errors Duri...

Page 37: ...ermore read errors which occur during the verification run in one or both of the areas to be compared are also counted as verification errors Therefore the number of verification errors gives you abso...

Page 38: ...you perform the following steps 1 Find your original receipt 2 Simply call Apricorn s technical support department with your upgrade kit part number and a description of the problem s you are experien...

Page 39: ...Apricorn and shall be void This warranty does not cover normal wear and tear No other warranty either express or implied including any warranty or mer chantability and fitness for a particular purpose...

Page 40: ...12191 Kirkham Road Poway CA U S A 92064 1 858 513 2000...

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