SATA Wire 3.0 USB 3.0 to 2.5”SATA CONNECTOR User’s Guide Attention: If your SATA Wire 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 SATA Wire FAQ’s at: http://www.apricorn.com/support.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Getting to know your SATA Wire 4 4 4 4 Connecting your SATA Wire 5 5 Before Running the Software 6 6 7 7 Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) 8 8 9 Introduction The Package Contains System Requirements Device Installation Before running EZ Gig we recommend EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista Changing the default “Power Options” To start EZ Gig directly from the CD-ROM Connecting Your Hard Drive EZ Gig Start Up Options 9 10 Cloning your hard drive with
SharedMemory Animation HotCopy / LiveImage Avoid exclusive read access 20 20 21 21 Partitions 22 23 Start Clone 24 25 25 25 Congratulations your Clone is Complete 26 SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 27 After the Clone 28 28 29 SATA Wire FAQs 30 EZ Gig FAQs 33 Contacting Technical Support 38 38 39 Resizing your partitions manually Interupting the Cloning Process Aborting the Cloning Process Interupting the Verification process Using the SATA Wire as a ext
Getting to know your SATA Wire Introduction The SATA Wire is perfect for transferring data to bare drives. Use it to connect any 2.5” SATA notebook hard drive to your computer. With the help of Apricorn’s user-friendly cloning software, you can clone or backup your notebook drive in a snap. The Package Contains • SATA Wire 3.
Connecting your SATA Wire Device Installation Installing your SATA Wire is easy. Simply connect your 2.5” SATA drive to the SATA Wire and connect the SATA Wire to your computer USB port (for optimal data transfer speeds connect to a USB 3.0 port, SATA Wire is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0). Now you can upgrade your notebook drive using the Upgrade Suite CD. Instructions for upgrading your Microsoft computer are provided on the following pages. If you are upgrading your Mac, please refer to page 27.
Before Running the Software After many years of use, hard drives can become cluttered with unusable file fragments and other file-system errors. Most file system errors are not immediately obvious to the user, but can be identified 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.
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.
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) Upgrade Suite CD is a bootable disk with EZ Gig data transfer utility that can copy hard drives without booting to the Windows operating system. To use Upgrade Suite as a stand-alone utility, your Computer must be able to boot from a CD-ROM, and the CD-ROM must be set as the first boot device in your computer’s System BIOS. NOTE: The System BIOS controls basic hardware functions in computer, and is the first screen that appears when booting your computer (i.e.
Connecting Your Hard Drive Before starting the EZ Gig software, please ensure that your new hard drive is connected to your notebook’s USB port via one of Apricorn’s Upgrade products listed on the previous page. EZ Gig Start Up Options Depending on how you received EZ Gig, you have two options. 1. If you have EZ Gig on a CD, please choose the Start option (proceed to page 11 of this manual to continue). 2.
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, floppy 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 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”.
Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 1. Click the “Let’s Get Started” button to proceed. 2. EZ Gig will then scan for connected drives. This may take a few moments. www.apricorn.
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 prefix AHCI or IDE. Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click “Next” to continue. 12 www.apricorn.
Selecting the Destination Drive Once you have selected your Source Drive, EZ Gig will ask you to select your Destination Drive. This is the drive you would like to copy to and 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. Speed Test Click the Speed Test icon on either the Source or Destination drive for an estimate of the drive’s read speed.
Drive Verification 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 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.
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 files on your original hard drive. There are two ways to get to the Data Select feature: 1.
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.
Analyzing files 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 www.apricorn.
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 reflected 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.
Advanced Options Verify Copy 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 influence 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.
More Advanced Options To access additional advanced options, click on the Apricorn logo in the bottom right corner of the “Advanced Options” window 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.
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 file 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 first tries to reserve the source drive for exclusive access.
Partitions When used 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. 22 www.apricorn.
Resizing your partitions manually To resize your partition manually: 1. Choose the “Manually” radio button on the “Advanced Options” window. 2. Once this radio button is selected, click the “Apply Changes” button. The “Adjust Partitions” window (shown left) will pop up. Positions and sizes of the partitions to be copied to the Destination drive are displayed graphically in a bar. The original size of the partition is displayed in dark green, while the additionally assigned space is displayed in light green.
Start Clone Now you’re ready! Press the “Start Clone” 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. 24 www.apricorn.
Interupting the Cloning Process The cloning process can be stopped at anytime using the “Stop” button. Continue cloning by clicking “Continue copying”. To stop the clone completely, select “Abort copying.” Aborting the Cloning Process If the cloning process aborted, a new clone must be commenced.
Congratulations your Clone is Complete Once your clone is complete, EZ Gig will let you know with a pop up window. To get 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. 26 www.apricorn.
SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 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.
After the Clone Once the transfer is complete, you are ready to install your new hard drive. Turn off the laptop and disconnect the SATA Wire with hard drive. Disconnect the Laptop’s AC adapter, and remove the laptop battery to reduce the risk of damage or electrical shock. Consult the Computer’s User Manual for instructions on how to remove the original hard drive from your computer. Some laptops may have the disk drive mounted under a cover.
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 (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 dialog box. (Your drive letter may differ).
SATA Wire FAQs 1. Why does my new drive or connector look different from my old drive or connector? The first 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 specifications and compare it to the specifications on the drive you purchased. All SATA drive connectors should look exactly the same. Use Apricorn’s hard drive configurator at www.apricorn.
5. Why USB 2.0? Modern PC peripherals can 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-fast scanners and disk drives, etc. 6. How much faster is USB 2.
10. Is it possible to restore a single file from the clone stored on my old drive? Yes. EZ Gig allows you to mount an image as a “virtual” hard drive. You can access this “virtual” drive as if it were a physical hard drive. You would use your Windows Explorer or My Computer and copy the file or folder and paste it on to your hard drive. 11. I am unable to format my 80GB or larger EZ Upgrade with FAT 32 in Windows 2000 or XP? Windows 2000 and XP limit a FAT32 partition to 32GB.
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 screen. In case of an error, one of the following error codes will be indicated here.
setup. Please consult your computer manual on how to change this setting since it may be named differently according to the respective BIOS. In most of the cases, you can find it under the name USB Legacy Support or USB Keyboard Support (often under Integrated Peripherals or Advanced Options). NOTE: In some of the cases, problems with the PS/2 keyboard and/or mouse occurred with an activated emulation for PS/2 devices.
a hard disk is configured as slave and if a CD/DVD drive or no drive at all is connected at the same IDE channel as master. Normally, EZ Gig can handle that, too. NOTE: If an SATA hard disk is not recognized, this can also be due to the used SATA controller. IDE controller not found There are the following three reasons why EZ Gig has not automatically recognized an IDE controller: • The IDE controller/channel is deactivated, e.g. on an onboard IDE controller.
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 errors, EZ Gig tries to troubleshoot them the best possible.
Verification errors When the option Verifying is activated, EZ Gig executes a verification run after the copying process. A verification error is counted if the data of two sectors on source and target do not correspond. Furthermore, read errors, which occur during the verification run in one or both of the areas to be compared, are also counted as verification errors.
Contacting Technical Support Apricorn provides the following helpful resources for you: 1. SATA Wire 3.0 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 support@apricorn.com. 4. Or call the Technical Support Department at 1-800-458-5448. Apricorn’s Technical Support Specialists are available from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time from Monday through Friday.
Warranty Conditions Warranty: Apricorn offers a 1 year warranty on SATA Wire 3.0 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 Apricorn or an authorized reseller. Disclaimer and terms of the warranties: The warranty becomes effective on the date of purchase and must be verified with your sales receipt or invoice displaying the date of product purchase.
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