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User’s Guide

NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE UPGRADE KIT

Attention:

 

If your EZ Upgrade shipped with a previous 
version of EZ Gig III, you can download the new 
EZ Gig IV from Apricorn’s website at:

http://www.apricorn.com/ezgig

 

Review the most current EZ Upgrade FAQ’s at: 

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

EZ Upgrade

Содержание EZ Upgrade

Страница 1: ...ention If your EZ Upgrade shipped with a previous version of EZ Gig III you can download the new EZ Gig IV from Apricorn s website at http www apricorn com ezgig Review the most current EZ Upgrade FAQ s at http www apricorn com support php EZ Upgrade ...

Страница 2: ...r Windows 7 Vista 9 Changing the default Power Options 9 Upgrade Suite CD ROM boot 10 To start EZ Gig directly from the CD ROM 10 Connecting Your Hard Drive 11 EZ Gig Start Up Options 11 Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD 12 Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 13 Selecting the Source Drive 14 Selecting the Destination Drive 15 Speed Test 15 Drive Verification 16 Data Select 17 Using the Data Select fea...

Страница 3: ...Start Clone 26 Interupting the Cloning Process 27 Aborting the Cloning Process 27 Interupting the Verification process 27 Congratulations your Clone is Complete 28 SuperDuper Backup Software for Mac 29 After the Clone 30 Using the EZ Upgrade as a external backup drive 30 Device Removal Windows 31 EZ Upgrade FAQs 32 EZ Gig FAQs 35 Contacting Technical Support 40 RMA Policy 40 Warranty Conditions 41...

Страница 4: ...TA or PATA IDE hard drive whether you have a Windows or Mac operating system Once the new drive is installed in the notebook the old drive can be installed in EZ Upgrade s Hi Speed USB 2 0 enclosure for an external storage and backup solution The Package Contains EZ Upgrade Enclosure for SATA PATA IDE Hard Drives USB Cable for Data and Power Upgrade Suite CD Apricorn EZ Gig IV with Data Select Shi...

Страница 5: ...ium CPU II or Apple G3 or later 128MBs RAM Available USB Port CD ROM or CD RW drive Supported Operating systems Microsoft Windows 7 Vista XP and 2000 NOTE If used with Windows 2000 EZ Gig must be booted from the CD Mac OS 9 2 or later OS X 10 2 or later ...

Страница 6: ...ard drives Hold the hard drive tray in one hand with the SATA connector the connector that is closest to the plastic end cap where you connect the cables away from your body Now with the label side up grab the sides of the hard drive with the other hand and set the hard drive into the tray with the SATA blade connector away from your body Carefully slide the hard drive by placing your thumb on the...

Страница 7: ...the drive is not completely seated For Upgrades Proceed to Step 4 To permanently mount your old hard drive proceed to Step 3 Step 3 Turn over the hard drive tray and secure the hard drive with the four screws Step 4 Once the drive is secured slide it back into the tray Make sure the Apricorn logo is facing up and the hard drive tray slides into the enclosure with the label side of the hard drive f...

Страница 8: ...agment 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 laptop and make sure it is not running on battery power 5 Attach the USB cable from your computer to the DriveWire 6 If you plan on running EZ Gig from the Bootable CD ROM You may need to change your la...

Страница 9: ...ur 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 clone your clone may fail This will not damage your original hard drive in any way but you will have to restart the cloning process To avoid this issue change the default Power Options before starting...

Страница 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 and Exit the BIOS to reboot the computer Helpful tip Some newer computers display a Boot Options message during startup Pressing the boot options key allows the user to temporarily change the boot ord...

Страница 11: ...ng used If used without one of Apricorn s upgrade products EZ Gig III will not work EZ Gig Start Up Options Depending on how you received EZ Gig you have two options If you have EZ Gig on a CD please choose the Start option proceed 1 to page 11 of this manual to continue If you downloaded EZ Gig from Apricorn s website you can either 2 choose the Start option go to page 11 or create a bootable EZ ...

Страница 12: ...to 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 a bootable USB key choose the desired drive at USB medium and click Make bootable Follow the instructions and wait until the installation program reports successful creation of the bootable medium O...

Страница 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 ...

Страница 14: ...ill be asked to select your Source Drive This is the drive you would like to copy from and in most cases is the internal drive in your notebook NOTE Your computer s internal drive will usually be denoted by the prefix AHCI or IDE Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click Next to continue ...

Страница 15: ...d in most cases is the external drive connected to your notebook s USB port NOTE Your external drive will be denoted by the prefix USB Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click Next to continue Click the Speed Test icon on either the Source or Destination drive for an estimate of the drive s read speed From this estimate a rough estimate of the clone time may be gauged Speed Test ...

Страница 16: ...Next to continue go to page 24 or to deselect files from the cloning process press the Data Select button go to page 15 If you need to change your drive selection click the Back button At this point you can also modify the default options for your clone using the Advanced Options button Only select this option if you would like to change your options from the default go to page 19 for more info on...

Страница 17: ...lications 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 smaller than the Source drive EZ Gig 1 will direct you to the below screen To deselect files from the clone click the Data Select button this will open the Data Select feature On the You are almost rea...

Страница 18: ...ghted 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 decrease the size of the clone i e the Source image EZ Gig enables you to deselect files from the cloning process to save space The files you may deselect from the cloning process are from the folders D...

Страница 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 select the appropriate checkbox EZ Gig will then display the space used in the ajoining column ...

Страница 20: ...updated 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 are almost ready to Clone screen The Data Select button will have a check mark to the left indicating that you have choosen to omit files from the clone To continue with the clone click the Next but...

Страница 21: ...kes 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 time usually required this option is chosen by default SmartCopy This option is off when doing a default clone but when selected allows you to copy free space between partitions from your internal dri...

Страница 22: ...opy 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 on for normal copies CachedMemory Use fast intermediate memory SharedMemory Use fast data transfers Animation Switch off copy animation may lead to a slight speed increase ...

Страница 23: ...e 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 is the most reliable way for creating an identical copy but it may interfere with other programs running at the same time If this option is selected EZ Gig tries to create a HotCopy or a LiveImage a...

Страница 24: ...d 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 to resize your partition sizes manually ...

Страница 25: ...tition 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 partition is displayed in white To resize click the desired partition s extended space light green 3 portion and drag with your mouse You can also use the and cursor keys to the same effect Once you have r...

Страница 26: ...e 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 size a clone can take anywhere from several minutes to a couple of hours ...

Страница 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 that the clone is only partially verified Interupting the Cloning Process If the cloning process aborted a new clone must be commenced The cloning process can be stopped at anytime using the Stop button...

Страница 28: ...et 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 you have finished your clone click Quit EZ Gig You will then be prompted to turn your computer off and disconnect the attached hard drive ...

Страница 29: ...rDuper dmg icon 4 This will open the package and mount a drive on your desktop 5 Open this drive by clicking on the newly created disk icon The below window will open on your screen 6 To install SuperDuper drag SuperDuper icon to Applications and run 7 Follow the instructions included on the SuperDuper User s Guide to setup SuperDuper Backup Software for Mac ...

Страница 30: ...l 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 EZ Upgrade as a external backup drive WARNING Formatting a Hard Drive will erase everything on the ...

Страница 31: ...Windows 2000 XP Vista and 7 1 Locate the system tray on your Windows Desktop the system tray is the part of the taskbar that displays the date and time 2 Click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon 2000 XP or Vista 7 in the system tray A dialog box will appear Please note that in Windows Vista and 7 the Safely Remove Hardware icon is different 3 Click Safely Remove Mass Storage Device Drive D in the ...

Страница 32: ...he old drive and turn it upside down so the board is face up and the connector end is away from you using your fingernail or fingertips work the one side of the connector up slightly and then the other Be patient you want to make gradual progress until you start to see the gold pins between the drive and the connector at that point you can pull the connector straight off the end of the pins Once y...

Страница 33: ... run faster and do more than the original USB designers ever dreamed The USB standard was upgraded to keep pace with the rapid advances in technology and the explosion of new consumer devices USB 2 0 host controllers add the faster speeds and greater flexibility than these new devices require USB 2 0 will allow your computer to connect to the newest USB devices High Speed Video and Ethernet ultra ...

Страница 34: ...t machine A clone is for disaster recovery purposes i e when your drive fails and you need to get back up and running You should not make a clone of your drive and put it in another or multiple machines There are licensing issues for the software on your machine 10 Is it possible to restore a single file from a clone stored on my EZ Upgrade Yes EZ Gig allows you to mount an image as a virtual hard...

Страница 35: ...following 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 12 Floppy disk format the floppy disk no quick format before creating a new one Floppy disk use another floppy disk Use if possible another boot drive NOTE If you didn t receive EZ Gig as an installation package but on a bootable disk and if a disk sho...

Страница 36: ...tive 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 First of all try to fix the problem via the help instructions for the respective hardware types IDE SCSI USB because the causes are usually found there If the problems cannot be fixed this way eithe...

Страница 37: ...ntrollers 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 controller Source Destination Size Differences Equal Size If source and target are of the same size EZ Gig creates an absolutely identical copy clone On this clone all sectors on source and target fro...

Страница 38: ...g 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 During the copying process read errors can only occur on the source medium EZ Gig then tries to read the defective areas immediately after the termination of the copying process with the option SafeRescu...

Страница 39: ...hermore 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 absolute information on how exactly source and target correspond to each other after the copying process In case of an error free copying process EZ Gig should not report any verification errors and sign...

Страница 40: ...ou 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 experiencing 3 If the Apricorn representative finds cause for a return they will issue an RMA number Please write this number down 4 Fill out an RMA authorization form with your package The RMA form is availab...

Страница 41: ...pricorn 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 has been or will be made by or on behalf of Apricorn or by operation of law with respect to the product or its installation use operation replacement or repair Apricorn shall not be liable by virtue o...

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