Apricorn EZ Upgrade - Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit User Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Getting to know your EZ Upgrade

4

Introduction

4

The Package Contains

4

System Requirements

5

Connecting your EZ Upgrade

6

Hard Drive Installation

6

For SATA hard drives:

6

For PATA/IDE hard drives:

7

Before Running the Software

8

Before running EZ Gig III we recommend

8

EZ Gig III instructions for Windows 7 & Vista

9

Changing the default “Power Options”

9

Connecting Your Hard Drive

10

EZ Gig III

Start Up Options

10

Creating a Bootable EZ Gig III CD

11

Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig III

12

Selecting the Source Drive

13

Selecting the Destination Drive

14

Speed Test

14

Drive Verification

15

Advanced Options

16

Verify Copy

16

Copy Free Areas

16

SmartCopy

16

Media Direct (Dell)

16

More Advanced Options

17

FastCopy

17

SafeRescue

17

CachedMemory

17

SharedMemory

17

Animation

17

HotCopy / LiveImage

18

Avoid exclusive read access

18

Partitions

19

Resizing your partitions manually

20

Start Clone

21

Interupting the Cloning Process

22

Aborting the Cloning Process

22

Interupting the Verification process

22

Congratulations your Clone is Complete

23

SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac

24

After the Clone

25

Using the EZ Upgrade as a external backup drive

25

Device Removal (Windows)

26

EZ Upgrade FAQs

27

EZ Gig III FAQs

30

Load errors

30

Error #5002 and ‘Disk error’

30

Keyboard and mouse

30

General problems

31

Slowed down system

31

Read, write and verification errors

31

IDE/ATA/SATA

31

Hard disk not recognized

31

IDE controller not found

31

Source & Destination Size Differences

32

Equal Size

32

Small to large

32

Large to small

33

Automatic troubleshooting

33

Intensive reading/writing

33

Read errors

33

Write errors

33

Verification errors

34

Contacting Technical Support

35

RMA Policy

35

Warranty Conditions

36

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