EZ Gig IV Cloning Software with Data Select User’s Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS EZ Gig - Getting Started 4 4 4 5 6 EZ Gig Start Up Options 6 7 Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 8 Cloning as Easy as 1-2-3 Compatibility System Requirements Connecting Your Hard Drive Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD Selecting the Source Drive Selecting the Destination Drive 9 10 Speed Test 10 11 Data Select 12 13 14 15 Advanced Options 16 16 16 16 16 More Advanced Options 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 Partitions 19 20 Drive Verification Using
Start Clone 21 22 22 22 Congratulations your Clone is Complete 23 FAQs 24 24 24 24 General problems 25 25 25 IDE/ATA/SATA 25 25 26 Source & Destination Size Differences 26 26 26 26 Automatic troubleshooting 27 27 27 27 27 Contacting Technical Support 29 RMA Policy 29 Warranty Conditions 30 Interupting the Cloning Process Aborting the Cloning Process Interupting the Verification process Load errors Error #5002 and ‘Disk error’ Keyboard and mouse Slowed do
EZ Gig - Getting Started Cloning as Easy as 1-2-3 Upgrading your notebook hard drive is one the easiest ways to increase performance and capacity. EZ Gig makes this process simple by copying all of your data, OS, email and settings to your new drive in just three simple steps. Compatibility EZ Gig is compatible with the latest Apricorn Upgrade products, including DriveWire, SATA Wire, Velocity Solo and EZ Upgrade.
System Requirements Hardware: 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® or Atom™ processor or equivalent 256MB RAM Available USB port CD ROM or CD-RW drive Keyboard: standard, PS/2 or USB Mouse: serial, PS/2 or USB (optionally, can be operated with keyboard only) Operating systems: Microsoft: Supported Media: Windows® 7, XP or Vista™ NOTE: When used with Windows 2000 you must boot to the EZ Gig III CD to clone your drive IDE/ATA hard disks, CompactFlash via IDE SATA hard disks (internal & external) SCSI hard disk
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 7 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. 8 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. 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 21) or to deselect files from the cloning process, press the “Data Select” button (go to page 12). 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. 14 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. 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. 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. www.apricorn.
FAQs 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. Error #5002 and ‘Disk error’ This error will be displayed if the boot medium is not readable when booting the program. The error is reported by the BIOS of the computer and points to a defective data carrier or a problem with the used boot drive.
NOTE: In some of the cases, problems with the PS/2 keyboard and/or mouse occurred with an activated emulation for PS/2 devices. If you do not use any USB input de-vices, please switch off the PS/2 emulation in the BIOS setup. General problems Slowed down system If you think the speed of the total system or the copying speed – also with IDE and SCSI devices – is too slow, a USB controller can be the cause, even if it is not used.
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. Activate the IDE controller/channel via the BIOS setup. • Standard IDE controllers (ISA) are not taken into account if PCI IDE controllers are available.
Automatic troubleshooting In case of occurring errors, EZ Gig tries to troubleshoot them the best possible. If this is not possible, the errors will be mentioned in a corresponding error statistic in the detailed report after the clone is complete. Intensive reading/writing In case of read or write errors, EZ Gig uses different strategies in order to still be able to read or write this data, if possible. The time used for defective areas depends to a large extent on the respective medium.
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 signalize a 100% conformity of source and target. 28 www.apricorn.
Contacting Technical Support Apricorn provides the following helpful resources for you: 1. EZ Gig 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 to 3 year warranty on its upgrade products 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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