Apricorn DriveWire Operation & User’s Manual

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• Apricorn DriveWire, 40 www.apricorn.com Warranty Conditions Warranty: Apricorn offers a 1 year warranty on DriveWire against defects in materials and workmanship under normal use. The warranty period is effective from the date of purchase (validated by your original receipt) either directly from  Disclaimer and terms of the warranties: 

• Apricorn DriveWire, 30 www.apricorn.com 1. Why does my new drive or connector look different from my old drive or connector? The rst thing you need to do is to determine if you bought the right drive. There are now two standards for 2.5” laptop hard drives, Serial ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA). Check with your manufacturer for the drive specications and compare it to the specications on the drive you purchased. All SATA drive connectors should look exactly the same. Use Apricorn’s hard drive congurator at www.ap

• Apricorn DriveWire, 32 www.apricorn.com 8. What software is included with my DriveWire? PC Software Includes: EZ Gig IV with Data Select EZ Gig for Windows is one of the most powerful yet easy to use back- up utilities available. EZ Gig IV is the fourth generation of the award winning EZ Gig Data Transfer Utility. MAC Software Includes: ShirtPocket SuperDuper! for Mac SuperDuper! is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy t

• 39 www.apricorn.com Contacting Technical Support Apricorn provides the following helpful resources for you: 1. DriveWire User’s Guide and Quick Start Guide 2. Apricorn’s Website (http://www.apricorn.com) This gives you the ability to check for up-to-date information. 3. E-mail us at [email protected]. 4. Or call the Technical Support Department at 1-800-458-5448. Apricorn’s Tec

• Apricorn DriveWire, 19 www.apricorn.com Advanced Options Compares the data of source and target after copying. If verify copy is chosen, the free areas between partitions will also be copied. This option has no inuence on the copying performance itself, but offers the possibility to synchronize the data of the source and target after the copying process. However, the whole process of copying and verifying then normally takes 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 le s

• Apricorn DriveWire, 38 www.apricorn.com Verication errors When the option Verifying is activated, EZ Gig executes a verication run after the copying process. A verication error is counted if the data of two sectors on source and target do not correspond. Furthermore, read errors, which occur during the verication run in one or both of the areas to be compared, are also counted as verication errors. Therefore, the number of verication errors gives you absolute information on how exactly source and targ

• Apricorn DriveWire, 4 www.apricorn.com Getting to know your DriveWire Introduction The DriveWire can be used to connect any 2.5” or 3.5” hard drive to your computer with a USB 2.0 interface. The adapter supports 2.5” and 3.5” IDE hard drives, as well as SATA hard drives. Perfect for technicians or anyone needing to copy or off-load les from one hard drive to another. The Package Contains • DriveWire Universal Drive Adapter • USB to Mini USB cable • AC Adapter • Upgrade Suite CD • Apricorn EZ Gig IV • ShirtPocket SuperDuper! Lite • Quick Start Guide System Requirements Hardware: Pentium CPU II or Apple G3 or later 128MBs RAM Available USB Por

• Apricorn DriveWire, 29 www.apricorn.com NOTE: To protect against unexpected data loss, Windows checks that all les on the disk are closed before allowing the USB device to be removed. If you receive an error message that says “The device cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.” Close all Windows and Programs that are using les from the Drive, then repeat the procedure. Device Removal (Windows) 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

• Apricorn DriveWire, 16 www.apricorn.com Using the Data Select feature The Data Select feature shows the capacity of the: Destination Drive• Source Drive• Available Capacity• If the Source drive is smaller than the Destination drive, the available capacity will be highlighted 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 les from the cloning process to save space. The les you may deselect from the cloning process are from the fo

• Apricorn DriveWire, 21 www.apricorn.com HotCopy / LiveImage Allows or denies EZ Gig access to the Windows shadow copy mechanism. If this option is deselected, EZ Gig is not able to create copies or le images of the system volume 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 rst 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 at rst.

• Apricorn DriveWire, 27 www.apricorn.com 1. Insert Apricorn CD into your CD-ROM drive 2. When the Apricorn CD appears on your desktop, double click to open. 3. Double click on the SuperDuper!.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 Guid

• 15 www.apricorn.com Data Select EZ Gig’s Data Select feature provides a simple method to deselect data folders from the cloning process which is helpful when migrating from a large HDD to a smaller SSD and perfect for creating a Boot Disk. This gives you the option to run your OS and applications from a fast, smaller SSD boot drive, while keeping your documents and media �

• Apricorn DriveWire, 31 www.apricorn.com 3. How do I format my drive? For Windows 2000 and XP cut & paste or type the URL below into your Internet browser or click the link below: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348 For Windows Vista & 7 cut & paste or type the URL below into your Internet browser or click the link below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-and-format-a- hard-disk-partition 4. What is USB 2.0? USB 2.0 represents the next generation of PC peripherals and connectivity. USB 2.0 is the rst major evolution of the Uni

• Apricorn DriveWire, 17 www.apricorn.com Analyzing les To analyze the amount of space used by each of the folders, 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

• Apricorn DriveWire, 20 www.apricorn.com To access additional advanced options, click on the Apricorn logo in the bottom right corner of the “Advanced Options” window More Advanced Options FastCopy 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.

• Apricorn DriveWire, User’s Guide UNIVERSAL HARD DRIVE ADAPTER Attention: If your DriveWire 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 DriveWire FAQ’s at: http://www.apricorn.com/support.php DriveWire

• Apricorn DriveWire, 14 www.apricorn.com Drive Verication You are almost ready to start your clone, but before you do, EZ Gig asks that you verify that the choosen drives are correct. If they are you have one of two options. Either click “Next” to continue (go to page 24) or to deselect les 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 fro

• 37 www.apricorn.com Large to small If the source is bigger than the target, EZ Gig will direct you to the Data Select feature. EZ Gig’s Data Select provides a simple method to deselect data folders from the cloning process. EZ Gig will only allow to proceed with the clone, once the available capacity on the target drive is a positive value. Automatic troubleshooting In case of occurring err

• 25 www.apricorn.com Aborting the Cloning Process Interupting the Verication process If you chose the “Verify Copy” option before starting the clone, EZ Gig will automatically compare the information on the “Source” and “Destination” drives once the clone is complete. If this process is interupted or stopped at anytime, the aborted verication run will have no inuenc

• Animation 20 HotCopy / LiveImage 21 Avoid exclusive read access 21 Partitions 22 Resizing your partitions manually 23 Start Clone 24 Interupting the Cloning Process 25 Aborting the Cloning Process 25 Interupting the Verication process 25 Congratulations your Clone is Complete 26 SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 27 After the Clone 28

• Apricorn DriveWire, TABLE OF CONTENTS Getting to know your DriveWire 4 Introduction 4 The Package Contains 4 System Requirements 4 Connecting your DriveWire 5 Before Running the Software 6 Before running EZ Gig we recommend 6 EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista 7 Changing the default “Power Options” 7 Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) 8 To start EZ Gig directly from the CD-ROM 8 Connecting Your Hard Drive 9 EZ Gig Start Up Options 9 Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD 10 Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 11 Selecting the Source Drive 12 Selecting the Destination Drive 13 Speed Test 13 Drive Verication 14 Data Select 15 Using the Data Select feature

• Apricorn DriveWire, 18 www.apricorn.com Selecting Folders to Omit To select folders to omit, select the checkboxes to the right, under the “Select Folders to Omit” column. Any selection from this column will automatically be reected in an 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

• Apricorn DriveWire, 6 www.apricorn.com After many years of use, hard drives can become cluttered with unusable le fragments and other le-system errors. Most le system errors are not immediately obvious to the user, but can be identied and repaired with a few simple steps. Although the steps below are not absolutely necessary to run EZ Gig, it’s best to try and clean-up disk errors BEFORE they are copied over to the new drive. Before running EZ Gig we recommend 1) Clean up any le-system errors by running Windows ScanDisk (or a similar disk cleanup utility) on your internal hard drive. 2) Defragment your

• Apricorn DriveWire, 5 www.apricorn.com Connecting your DriveWire If connecting to 3.5” IDE/PATA Hard Drives conrm device jumpers are 1. set to master mode. Note: See FAQs for more information about master mode Connect your hard drive to the appropriate SATA or PATA connection on 2. the DriveWire (see diagram below) Note: When connecting PATA 2.5” or 3.5” drives to DriveWire, it is necessary to align the polarizing pins in the DriveWire’s connector up with the open space on the hard drive to avoid breaking pins on the hard drive. Connect t

• Apricorn DriveWire, 7 www.apricorn.com EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista Windows 7 and Vista User Account Control helps stop unauthorized changes to your computer. The User Account Control window pops up in Administrator Approval Mode whenever a program tries to run on your Windows system. When the User Account Control window pops up there will be a warning symbol and message that reads, “A program needs your permission to continue.” The instructions will read “If you started this program, Continue.” Please click the Continue button and proceed to the EZ Gig Start-Up screen. Changing the default “Power Options” Be default the Win

• 34 www.apricorn.com EZ Gig FAQs The below FAQs refer to cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig only. For information on issues using Shirt Pocket SuperDuper! software for Mac, please go the ShirtPocket’s website at www.ShirtPocket.com Load errors During the start of the program, before EZ Gig is loaded itself, a message and a progress bar will appear on the boot scr

• Apricorn DriveWire, 12 www.apricorn.com Selecting the Source Drive Once EZ Gig has scanned for connected drives, you will 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 prex AHCI or IDE. Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click “Next” to continue.

• Apricorn DriveWire, 10 www.apricorn.com Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD If you downloaded EZ Gig from Apricorn’s website, you have the option of creating a bootable EZ Gig CD, oppy disk or thumb drive to use in the future. To create a bootable media disk follow the appropriate directions below: If you want to create a bootable oppy disk, choose the desired • drive at ‘Floppy drive’ and click “Create oppy”. 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 installat

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