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Summary of Contents for Ez backit pro

Page 1: ...User Guide ...

Page 2: ...cit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of the work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE O...

Page 3: ...tion of Hardware 5 Connecting to a Windows 98 SE or ME computer 5 Windows 2000 and XP 5 Using Clone EZ to make a clone backup 6 Using Image EZ to make an image backup 7 Reformatting your EZ Backit Pro 9 To reformat the drive for Windows 2000 or XP 9 Troubleshooting 11 Warranty Information 12 Appendix Technical Support Information 13 ...

Page 4: ...D Clone EZ is ideal for users who require an exact bootable clone of their hard drive A cloned copy is used for disaster recovery backup or a hard drive upgrade Image EZ is great for users who desire a compressed image of their entire hard drive or partition Since Image EZ compresses its backup users have enough space to keep backups from multiple dates or multiple computers SoftwareUsageCondition...

Page 5: ...ng Clone EZ at the end of each month Perform weekly backups using Image EZ Cleanup the drive It s also a good idea to combine your backups with these other important maintenance tasks Clean up any file system errors by running Windows ScanDisk or a similar disk cleanup utility on your internal hard drive before you run backups Check with the laptop manufacturer for any BIOS updates Most BIOS updat...

Page 6: ... to use your EZ Backit Pro you should have Hardware Pentium CPU 32MBs RAM CD ROM drive Floppy Disk drive Opertating systems Microsoft Windows 98 Windows Millennium Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Home and Professsional 4 ...

Page 7: ...e Manager screen Windows 2000 During the Add New Hardware installation process the Wizard should detect the Ez backit pro as an ATA device Windows will install a PCMCIA IDE ATAPI Controller as the device driver When installed correctly you should see this new driver listed under IDE ATAPI Controllers in the Windows 2000 Device Manger screen Once the device drivers are installed the EZ Backit Hard ...

Page 8: ...ard drive and click Next to continue 7 If there is data on the destination drive you must agree to delete the partitions on it to continue If you do not want to overwrite the data on the drive click Back and choose another drive Click Next to continue 8 Clone EZ presents a layout of the source and destination drive after the upgrade Review the layout and confirm the settings To find out the model ...

Page 9: ...s Apricorn EZ Gig II may need to restart your computer Please save all work before starting Apricorn EZ Gig II 3 To Start EZ Gig II click the Start button go to Programs Apricorn EZ Gig II and click on Apricorn EZ Gig II This will open the main screen of EZ Gig II You can also click on the Apricorn EZ Gig II icon on the Desktop 4 Select Create Image from the main screen to open Image EZ 5 At the f...

Page 10: ...use If you forget the password you will be unable to access the image file at a later date Apricorn does not have the ability to retrieve the password Click Next to continue 12 This will open the Image Archive Comments window You can use this window to write comments about the image such as the date you created the image the computer operating system etc Click Next to continue 13 This will open th...

Page 11: ...ution This will destroy any data on the hard drive please back up any data before you continue with the reformatting of the EZ Backit Pro hard drive 1 Open My Computer or Windows Explorer 2 Right click on the EZ Backit Pro drive and select format 3 This will open the format window a In the File system drop down box select NTFS b Allocation unit size use default allocation size c Format options i S...

Page 12: ...size limitation of 4 GB If you are using Windows 2000 or XP you have two options to change the file system on the drive The first option as seen on page 9 will reformat the drive and you will lose your data If you want to keep your data you can use the following method Press the start menu button go to run and type cmd into the open line and hit enter The CMD window will open At the prompt type co...

Page 13: ...RN THIS WARRANTY DOES NOT EXTEND TOANY PRODUCT NOT PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM APRICORN OR TO ANY PRODUCT THAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED OR RENDERED DEFECTIVE 1 AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT MISUSE NEGLECT ABUSE OR FAILURE AND OR INABILITY TO FOLLOW THE WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED IN THIS INSTRUCTION GUIDE 2 BY THE USE OF PARTS NOT MANUFACTURED OR SOLD BY APRICORN 3 BY MODIFICATION OF THE PRODUCT OR 4 AS A RESULT ...

Page 14: ...omprehensive technical support We suggest you use the following sequence for faster service 1 Hardware Installation section of the User s Guide Manual 2 Apricorn s Website http www apricorn com Check for up to date information 3 Apricorn Technical Support Department 1 800 458 5448 Apricorn s Technical Support Specialists are available from 8 00 AM to 5 00 PM Monday to Friday Pacific Standard Time ...

Page 15: ...presentative finds cause for a return they will issue an RMA number to reference your product You will need to include the RMA authorization form with your package The RMA form is available online at http www apricorn com support rma php It is the customer s responsibility to write the RMA number on the exterior of the package and sent the prepaid package to Apricorn Attn RMA 12191 Kirkham Rd Powa...

Page 16: ...12191 Kirkham Road Poway California U S A 92064 858 513 2000 http www apricorn com rev 1 2 July 2003 ...

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