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Logicube OmniClone® Xi User Manual

Logicube OmniClone

User’s Manual

Logicube, Inc.

Chatsworth, CA 91311

USA

Phone: 818 700 8488

Fax: 818 700 8466

Version: 3.1

Date: 12/08/14

MAN-OMNICLONEXI

Summary of Contents for Omniclone Xi

Page 1: ...Logicube OmniClone Xi User Manual I Logicube OmniClone Xi User s Manual Logicube Inc Chatsworth CA 91311 USA Phone 818 700 8488 Fax 818 700 8466 Version 3 1 Date 12 08 14 MAN OMNICLONEXI...

Page 2: ...MS CAN CAUSE LOSS OF DATA DEFECTIVE FORMATTING OR DATA LOADING LOGICUBE WILL MAKE EFFORTS TO SOLVE OR REPAIR ANY PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED BY CUSTOMER EITHER UNDER WARRANTY OR ON A TIME AND MATERIALS BASIS...

Page 3: ...BISHED COMPONENTS AT NO COST THIS WARRANTY IS THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS IF A PRODUCT IS HAS BECOME OBSOLETE OR IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY LOGICUBE THE PRODUCT MAY BE REPLACED...

Page 4: ...QUIPMENT ROHS DIRECTIVE 2002 95 EC THE ROHS DIRECTIVE PROHIBITS THE SALE OF CERTAIN ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT CONTAINING SOME HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES SUCH AS MERCURY LEAD CADMIUM HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM AND CERTA...

Page 5: ...E LOGICUBE OMNICLONE XI 7 Connecting Parallel IDE EIDE UDMA Drives 7 Connecting Serial ATA SATA Drives 8 Connecting other types of drives 8 POWER AND RESET BUTTONS 9 THE USER INTERFACE 9 Touch Screen...

Page 6: ...NCES 33 Introduction 33 On Error Optional 33 On Error Step by Step 34 Set Option 34 Set Option Step by Step 34 Last Drive 35 Last Drive Step by Step 35 Database 35 4 GUID PARTITION TABLE GPT DRIVES 36...

Page 7: ...UCTION 62 Drive Cables 62 Proper Handling of Drive Cables 62 Drive Stations 63 Removal of a Drive Station 63 Installation of a Drive Station 63 Power Supply 64 Removal and Installation of the Power Su...

Page 8: ...Logicube OmniClone Xi User s Manual VIII FAQ S 76 TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE 79 15 REFERENCE 82 GLOSSARY 82 16 INDEX 88 TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION 90...

Page 9: ...ng to a user set mode Depending on the mode the unit will adjust structures to ensure the validity of the Targets This process is called disk cloning This manual covers the following Logicube products...

Page 10: ...OmniClone Xi is aware of the above three file systems and will clone them over intelligently Features Clones any IDE EIDE PATA or Serial ATA Drive Data transfer rates in excess of 3 5 GB min Master an...

Page 11: ...Index Please read Section 1 Introduction and Section 2 Getting Started before attempting a drive cloning session It is recommended that you practice with a scratch drive to fully appreciate all of th...

Page 12: ...rd is inserted into the slot in the back of the unit NOTE It is highly recommended that the CF Card be left inside the Omniclone Xi for optimal performance NOTE Please contact Logicube Technical Suppo...

Page 13: ...INTRODUCTION Logicube OmniClone Xi User s Manual 5 Figure 1 Logicube OmniClone Xi...

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Page 15: ...the Master position on the top of your OmniClone Xi unit You will notice three connections One for a flat cable the IDE PATA drive data cable and another for a small drive power cable Above is the th...

Page 16: ...ves to the Target positions of the Logicube OmniClone Xi 5 Connect the AC Power Cord to the back of the Logicube OmniClone Xi and power up the unit In 2 3 seconds the main Splash screen appears Connec...

Page 17: ...et switch When the unit needs to be soft booted or power cycled press the reset button and hold it in momentarily Wait a couple of seconds and let go the unit will reboot and be ready to use in a few...

Page 18: ...are with finger 1 5 4 Look for a square at the top of the screen Touch or tap the square when it is located 5 Repeat the previous step four more times The unit will count each time the square is tappe...

Page 19: ...ompletes an operation successfully the green light will stay lit If an error occurs during cloning the Status indicator lights on the front panel will shut off If one of the drives caused the error to...

Page 20: ...the OC5Xi it first needs to be attached to the back of the unit with four supplied thumb screws NOTE The OC2Xi does not come with a light bar though one can be purchased separately The light bar will...

Page 21: ...Time and Date A confirmation screen will appear Are you sure you want to change the time and date 2 Tap the Yes icon to continue A numeric keypad will appear 3 Type in a number from 1 to 23 for the h...

Page 22: ...ill access the drive and report back the drive s model number capacity geometry and other information To see the drive s partition information tap the See More icon to display all of the partitions lo...

Page 23: ...ves greater than 2TB Only GPT drives can be cloned to drives greater than 2TB in capacity If you have an MBR based drive the largest drive you can clone to is 2TB For more information about GPT please...

Page 24: ...g Mode icon that appears in the upper left hand corner A list of the available cloning modes appears 3 Tap the Clever icon the CleverCopy settings screen will appear 4 Adjust the Verify CHS and SPEED...

Page 25: ...le on partitions with FAT16 and FAT32 file systems Selective Partitions Step by Step 1 From anywhere in the menu system press the Set button to enter the Settings menu 2 Tap the Cloning Mode icon that...

Page 26: ...her Operating System NOTE MBR is more common than GPT For more information about GPT please see Section 4 GUID Partition Table GPT Drives ADDITIONAL NOTES When multiple copies are required all you nee...

Page 27: ...ever percentage of the Master drive that is designated NOTE Any space left over on the Target drive will be seen as unallocated space For example if you are performing a 100 Mirror copy of a 40 GB dri...

Page 28: ...eful in the creation of a multi partition Master Manager drive Many IT technicians prefer to store multiple partitions e g one for accounting one for marketing etc on a single Master Manager drive Whe...

Page 29: ...r icon the Master Manager settings screen will appear 5 Adjust the Verify and SPEED settings as needed These settings are discussed later in this section 6 You may now press the Start Stop button twic...

Page 30: ...ill not appear on the LCD display Choose the Master partition you wish to overwrite or scroll down and select the Add New Partition option 11 Press the Start Stop button to begin cloning Cloning Windo...

Page 31: ...sary for creating correct and bootable clones 1 Use Selective Partitions mode 2 The Logicube OmniClone Xi will report two partitions They should be cloned as follows a 100 MB NTFS Mirror Keep Size may...

Page 32: ...s necessary to keep the System Restricted partition the same size as what is on the Master drive Resizing C OS partition works well Regular C 100Mb Rest of drive System Restricted System Restricted Re...

Page 33: ...mniClone Xi in order to CleverCopy Windows Vista Vista Installations The following Vista installations are supported by CleverCopy mode Upgrade of a Windows XP SP2 drive Dual Boot scenario with Window...

Page 34: ...E NT 2 VISTA NT Fig 3b Selective partition Table XP Vista dual boot XP partition comes before Vista partition Use the Selective Partitions mode on the OCXi unit Set the clone method to Keep Size for t...

Page 35: ...ght click it and run it as an administrator or with elevated rights A DOS window will open 3 Now type the following commands in the DOS Window Bcdedit set bootmgr device boot enter Bcdedit set default...

Page 36: ...successful in each case These commands change the BCD file in a way that allows Vista to boot even if some of the drive s geometry has changed It will not cause a rollback will not request the license...

Page 37: ...n of new SID values system wide This is desirable if two or more of the cloned drives will live in the same Active Directory domain 5 The computer will turn off Remove the Master drive and do not boot...

Page 38: ...re scanned This is faster but less thorough than using the All setting 100 Verify Every data sector on the Target drive to which data has been written is checked NOTE Logicube strongly recommends agai...

Page 39: ...orts copying speeds from 15 to 20 MB per minute NOTE CPU speed is designed for cloning DiskOn Modules Compact Flash drives and older solid state storage devices It is only available in 100 Clone Mode...

Page 40: ...ts The NTFS Dirty Bit The NTFS Dirty Bit is a bit that is saved on the NTFS partition Its job is to let the Operating System know whether the volume has been shut down correctly Upon reboot the OS exa...

Page 41: ...l The On Error setting is a feature that is part of the Omnidiagnostics option It determines the behavior of the unit in the case where bad spots are detected on the Master drive This setting has four...

Page 42: ...ional software packages are already installed on your Logicube OmniClone Xi and are automatically updated when you install a newer software version To use an option like NTFS CleverCopy Selective Clon...

Page 43: ...clones 10 Target drives can be set to clone 5 drives Only the first 5 Target positions would be active while the remaining Target positions would be turned off This reduces the cloning time slightly...

Page 44: ...other drive and the resulting drive will be MBR OmniClone Xi can also clone GPT drives to another drive and the resulting drive will be GPT OmniClone Xi does not convert from MBR to GPT or vice versa...

Page 45: ...he left of this step For the Operating System partition choose CLEVER See icon to the left of this step 8 Tap the OK icon to continue 9 A User Attention screen will appear Tap the YES icon since the M...

Page 46: ...Start icon click cmd or cmd exe A window will appear with the command prompt 4 Type to following commands listed below In the example below Z is the volume or drive letter the Operating System is curr...

Page 47: ...t mode scans the Target drives for weak and bad data sectors It uses the Read Verify command of the ATA specification to detect bad or weak spots on the Target drives When a suspect area of the drive...

Page 48: ...i will notify you and display a list of the scanned drives along with bad or weak sectors found on each drive 7 After reviewing the summary tap the Back icon to return to the main menu Repair Target M...

Page 49: ...all 0 s and all 1 s The last pass then writes the user selectable chosen pattern to every byte of the drive For example if you set the Value to 0xff and the number of iterations the value of n in the...

Page 50: ...pear 4 Tap the Passes icon to set the number of passes Use the numeric keypad to enter the number of passes Tap OK when finished 5 Tap the Value icon to scroll through the different patterns 6 Tap the...

Page 51: ...or your OmniClone Xi unit Please contact Logicube if you wish to purchase any of the option packages System Contents When the Logicube Database Barcode option is purchased it comes with the following...

Page 52: ...oks like the list below Title IncludeHeaders UnitSN UnitFirmware Scan1 OperatorBadge Scan2 BatchNo Scan3 Location Time Date MasterModel MasterSerial TargetModels TargetSerials Mode Outcome Master MD5...

Page 53: ...ne records the Serial Number of the Master Drive TargetModels This line records the Model Number of each Target drive connected to the OmniClone Xi TargetSerials This line records the Serial Number of...

Page 54: ...o choosing a Config List to running the cloning session and collecting the DAT csv file It is a basic rundown of the Database process Details such as the menu options and the Barcode Scanner will be d...

Page 55: ...until the Scanner beeps 13 After the data is collected the unit will stop with a clone successful message 14 At this point the DAT csv file can be copied from the CF drive and imported into the Databa...

Page 56: ...for the Scan line and tap OK when finished This label is later used in the Scan prompt that appears at the end of the cloning session NOTE Tapping the ALT button on the alphanumeric keypad will bring...

Page 57: ...should appear 6 After several moments Windows should automatically assign a drive letter to the CompactFlash card 7 In Windows browse the contents of the CompactFlash card and locate the database file...

Page 58: ...hree digit number corresponding to the number of databases created for example DAT000 CSV 6 Open the CSV database file to view the contents CSV files can be opened by a number of programs for example...

Page 59: ...barcode NOTE The Database function does not need to be running for the Barcode scanner to scan Factory Settings Factory Default Scan this barcode to set your Barcode scanner back to the factory defau...

Page 60: ...barcodes i e UPC A UPC E EAN 13 etc This setting may be necessary if you are utilizing an unusual barcode type NOTE Advanced barcode settings are available in the User s Manual that is included with y...

Page 61: ...t Please contact Logicube if you wish to purchase any of the option packages System Contents When the Logicube Serial Link option is purchased it comes with the following items A 6 foot proprietary Se...

Page 62: ...consult the software s user s manual for information on how to configure the following settings 6 Choose File New Connection or follow the connection wizard if it comes up automatically 7 Name the Co...

Page 63: ...er between 000 and 100 For Example 010 10 from front of Master 042 42 from front of Master 003 3 from front of Master T Provides current status of the cloning session READY BUSY or DONE P Shows progre...

Page 64: ...Verification session See Section 11 Verification Station for more details Other Notes Commands are case sensitive and must always be in CAPS You can mix Serial Link commands with actual button s and...

Page 65: ...will receive a drive letter and then can be accessed through Windows like any other drive Minimum requirements A Logicube OmniClone Xi unit with integral USB port A 586 or better PC compatible comput...

Page 66: ...y on your PC screen which depends on the operating system 7 If your PC is running ME 2000 XP Vista 7 your drive will automatically be mounted and drive letters assigned to all recognizable partitions...

Page 67: ...IMPORTANT NOTE Software version 1 7RC52 and above requires the CF Card be left inside the OmniClone Xi To load new software from the CF card please refer to the procedure Loading Software Using the C...

Page 68: ...p button 5 A prompt will appear saying that the unit is in USB Mode 6 Attach the USB cable to the Logicube OmniClone Xi You should now see some activity on your PC screen which depends on the operatin...

Page 69: ...can be turned ON and OFF in the Config ini file Turn the buzzer ON by setting Buzzer 1 Turn the buzzer OFF by setting Buzzer 0 Note For units purchased after 2006 the audible buzzer cannot be turned o...

Page 70: ...ables drive stations and even an extra power supply handy in case of emergency Drive Cables The UDMA power and SATA Cables that connect Master and Target drives to the OmniClone Xi are designed to wit...

Page 71: ...he Drive Station When this occurs the station can be easily replaced by the user Replacement Drive Station Modules are available from Logicube Please contact Logicube Sales for more information Remova...

Page 72: ...e from Logicube Please contact Logicube Sales for more information NOTE The OmniClone 2Xi uses a separate power supply that is not physically connected to the unit Removal and Installation of the Powe...

Page 73: ...drive data It compares the MD5 Hash value of each drive to a set value that is stored on the OmniClone Xi s CF card by the user It will display a PASS FAIL message after comparison The Target position...

Page 74: ...r MD5 Hash Value The Logicube Verification Stations compare each drive with a Gold Master MD5 Hash Value This value is calculated from the Master drive and stored in a file called checksum txt that re...

Page 75: ...hard drive When using this method the MD5 hash value of the disk drive will need to be manually entered onto the checksum txt file located in the CompactFlash card of the Logicube OmniClone Xi NOTE Ma...

Page 76: ...on Station Note The Master drive must be attached to the Target 1 Verification Station The OmniClone Xi will not generate the MD5 hash from any other Target position 2 From anywhere in the menu system...

Page 77: ...modes appears 3 Tap the Mirror icon 4 A screen appears asking you what percentage of the Master drive to clone Tap the numeric keypad set this value at 100 Tap the OK icon when finished 5 Tap the Veri...

Page 78: ...ears 3 Tap the Checksum icon You should now see a Checksum icon on the upper left hand corner and another Checksum icon on the right side of the screen 4 Tap the Checksum icon on the right side of the...

Page 79: ...rives How to Install 1 Turn off the power to the OmniClone Xi and unplug the power supply cord 2 Remove the drive and any cables from the Standard Drive Station 3 Loosen the two thumb screws located o...

Page 80: ...Combo Station CF 1 8 and PCMCIA drives 1 Find the correct slot that is clearly marked on the top of the Combo Station Each type of drive has its own unique slot 2 Face the label of the drive in the di...

Page 81: ...ult in damage to the Combo Station drive or the OmniClone Xi itself Never attach more than one drive at a time to the Combo Station This can result in damage to the drives Optimal speed results can be...

Page 82: ...Compact Flash CF If a CF reader writer is available on your computer simply copy all the files from the software CD or extract he contents of the downloaded ZIP file to the root directory overwriting...

Page 83: ...en Touch or tap the square when it is located 7 Repeat the previous step four more times The unit will count each time the square is tapped correctly It will count 1 5 2 5 etc 8 Once the screen has be...

Page 84: ...g Guidelines available on our website or from our technical support department Q By comparison my Logicube OmniClone Xi appears to be operating slower than other units A Make sure that your unit is us...

Page 85: ...Q Can the Logicube OmniClone Xi defragment a partition A Yes Refer to Section 3 Cloning Modes and Settings for information on using Selective Partitions to defragment a FAT partition while cloning Q C...

Page 86: ...procedure will continue regardless Q Can I clone drives with virus protection software installed A Yes but remember to decline the repair of the target drive should a virus protection program complain...

Page 87: ...site Also check the condition of the power and data cables they are rated for a maximum of 500 insertions New cable sets can be ordered from Logicube Q My Target drive will not boot Why A Please check...

Page 88: ...clusters that exist when Targets larger than 8 GB have been cloned from Master drives smaller than 8 GB To prevent the problem from occurring change the Logicube OmniClone Xi default CleverCopy mode...

Page 89: ...be too damaged for the unit to skip over Please refer to the Scan Target Mode and Repair Target Mode information located in Section 5 Omnidiagnostics Note that if Verify is set to 1 or 100 the bad sec...

Page 90: ...de prior to 1994 It will only show a maximum drive size of 504 MB no matter how large it s true capacity Cloning Hard Drive The process of copying the contents of one hard drive to another with the in...

Page 91: ...s are created deleted and modified Some operating systems come with a utility for defragmenting drives Third party defragment utilities are also available DMA Direct Memory Access A method of transfer...

Page 92: ...barrier of the standard CHS mode to 4 2 GB LBA Logical Block Addressing A translation mode that converts the cylinder head and sector specifications of a hard drive into logical addresses that can be...

Page 93: ...seful when multiple operating systems are loaded on one drive For example creating one partition for Windows NT another for UNIX and so on PIO Programmed Input Output A method of transferring data bet...

Page 94: ...Slave Drive IDE The secondary device connected to an IDE interface See Master Single Drive SMART Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology A diagnostic utility built into some modern hard driv...

Page 95: ...Serial Bus A high speed serial interface for connecting external peripherals to a computer USB 1 x supports data transfer rates of up to 12 Mbps Megabits per second USB 2 0 supports data rates of up...

Page 96: ...32 Dirty Bit NTFS cloning 63 Disclaimer Liability Limitation II Disclaimer Liability Limitations II DiskOn Modules 31 Display LCD 10 Department of Defense 42 DoD Department of Defense 2 42 DoD Specif...

Page 97: ...34 On Error Skip 34 Option Database Barcode 36 45 48 52 Optional Preference Settings 30 Partition Mirror 17 19 Partition Drive 17 22 90 Partition Dynamic 19 Partition FAT16 2 17 19 81 83 84 85 88 Par...

Page 98: ...2 0 59 92 USB Port 2 3 4 59 70 User interface UI 9 Virus Protection Software 83 Volumes 1 Warranty Parts and Labor II III Website Logicube 25 76 80 Win2000 2 Win95 98 2 Win98 2 Windows 2000 2 13 32 59...

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