Kanguru U2D - Manual (Page 13)

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3. GENERAL OPERATION
The Kanguru USB Duplicator comes with an integrated hard drive. You can designate either a connected
USB drive or the internal hard drive as the Source. For more information about designating the Source
location, please see section 4.3 Select Source on page 26. After you have selected your Source location,
select a Copy mode.
3.1 Duplication Modes
The Kanguru USB Duplicator can Copy and/or Compare USB drives in any one of four modes:
3.1.1 FULL
FULL mode copies drives sector by sector from the Source to the Target(s), and supports all major
OS formats (DOS/Windows/Mac/Linux). This mode is the slowest copy mode, but the safest.
3.1.2 BRIEF
BRIEF mode copies only the sectors that contain data and skips any blank sectors (including
information hidden in sub channels). This mode is the fastest copy mode; it supports the following
file systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS.
Note: If the Source is not formatted as a supported file system then the duplicator will automatically
switch to FULL mode.
3.1.3 RESIZE
RESIZE mode is used to copy between Source and Target drives of different capacities. The Resize
mode allows for copying from a smaller capacity Source to larger capacity Target drives. Resize
copy supports the following file systems: FAT, FAT 32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS. If the
Source is not formatted as a supported file system then the duplicator will automatically switch
to FULL mode. When duplicating in Resize mode, Target drives should all be the same capacity.
Note: Due to technical limitations the Resize function may only be executed on devices connected
to the top row of USB ports. This feature may be updated in the future with a firmware update
to allow Resize to function on all ports. Please contact Kanguru Solutions Technical Support for
information about the latest firmware version (see chapter 7. Tech Support on page 36).
3.1.4 SMART
SMART mode checks the Source and Target drives and determines which copy mode is the most
efficient and automatically operates in that mode.
○ First it will try to detect the Source drive’s file system. If it does not recognize the file system
General Operation / Duplication Modes