Apricorn Aegis Mini A18-FW 120GB manual

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T able of C onTenTs Page # 1. Introduction ................................................................................... 4 2. Getting t o know your Aegis Mini ................................................. 5 w System Requir ements ................................................................ 5 w Package Contents ........................[...]

Value You Can Depend On 4 Thank you for purchasing the Aegis Mini USB 2.0 or FireWire Please take the time to read this manual rst to familiarize yourself with the Aegis Mini and all of the software packages that come with the Aegis Mini . Good things really do come in small packages! Apricorn’ s Aegis Mini ultra portable 1.8” hard drive ins[...]

www.apricorn.com 5 2 G ettInG to know your A eGIs M InI A. System Requirements Hardware: Pentium CPU II or Apple G3 or later 32MBs RAM USB Port or FireWire Port CD ROM or CD-RW drive Operating systems: Microsoft: Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Home and Professional Mac: OS 9.2 or higher OS 10.2 and later B. Package Contents Aegis Mini Data Pr[...]

Value You Can Depend On 6 C. Specications Parameter Data T ransfer Rates Up to 480 Mbps USB and 400 Mbps 1394 Power Completely powered by the data cable Interface Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or 1394 FireWire Buffer Size 2MB RPM 4200 Average Seek T ime 12ms V oltage 5 V olts +/- 5% Shock - non operating 1500G 1ms Shock - operating 600G 2ms Dimensions 17m[...]

www.apricorn.com 7 3. s et -u p A. Installation Windows 2000 and XP: 1. Ensure your computer is turned on. 2. Plug the Aegis Mini USB or FireWire cable into the appropriate open port on your computer . 3. The “New Hardware Found” message will appear briey on your computer screen. 4. Windows 2000 and XP will install the device drivers include[...]

Value You Can Depend On 8 B. Disconnecting Windows 2000 and XP 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 in the system tray . A dialog box will appear . 3) Click ‘Safely Remove hard disk – Drive (D:) in the dia[...]

www.apricorn.com 9 B. Disconnecting Macintosh 1. The drive will need to be dismounted. Do this by dragging the Aegis Mini on the desk top to the “T rash Can” . 2 W ait a few seconds for the drive to unmount and then you can safely remove the drive Aegis Mini . T o protect against unexpected data loss, OS X veries that all les on the disk [...]

Value You Can Depend On 10 Reformatting Y our Hard Drive Y our Aegis Mini’ s hard drive is preformatted with the F A T32 Windows File System. While the F A T32 le system is visible to the largest number of operating systems, F A T32 does have limitations. Y ou cannot save a le larger than 4GB. In Windows 2000 and XP , and you can not create[...]

www.apricorn.com 1 1 Reformatting with Mac OS X 1 Plug the cable from your Aegis Mini into your computer . The drive will appear as a drive on your desktop. 2. Open the “Applications” folder on your hard drive, go to the “Utilities” folder and select Disk Utilities . 3. Select the drive from the list: Note that a description of the drive ap[...]

Value You Can Depend On 12 Before Y ou Backup! With more of your work and personal life becoming digitized, backups are essential. Backups protect and preserve precious data, music les, digital photos, digital videos and other important computer documents from being lost forever . Follow the next few steps before backing up to help the process r[...]

www.apricorn.com 13 Installation of EZ Gig II for Windows 1. Insert Apricorn CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. Setup screen will pop up. Click EZ GIG II button. 3. EZ Gig II installation screen will pop up. 4. Follow instructions for installation.[...]

Value You Can Depend On 14 Cloning your hard drive with Disk Clone EZ Gig II allows you to clone your hard drive from inside the window operating system or by booting directly to the EZ Gig II CD provided in the kit. If your system is running normally we recommend that you clone your hard drive by starting up the program inside the windows operatin[...]

www.apricorn.com 15 5. The “Upgrade Mode” screen will appear . Select “Automatic Upgrade” and click Next to continue. 6. If the hard disk drive to receive the cloned data is new or blank, proceed to step 10. If the hard disk drive to receive the cloned data either contains data or is formatted, proceed to step 7. 7. The “Source Hard Disk?[...]

Value You Can Depend On 16 8. The “Destination Hard Disk” screen will appear . Select the appropriate destination hard disk. The destination hard disk is typically your new hard disk drive. Click Next to Continue. 9. The “Non-empty Destination Hard Disk” screen will appear when you have selected to transfer data to a drive that already cont[...]

www.apricorn.com 17 10. The “Hard Disk Drives Structure” screen will appear . This screen shows the source hard disk layout before the cloning process and the destination hard disk layout after the cloning process. Click Next to continue. 1 1. The next screen outlines the operations that Disk Clone will perform. Click Next to proceed with cloni[...]

Value You Can Depend On 18 12. The cloning process will now begin. Do not turn your computer off during this process. Let the process continue until you see the congratulations screen. When the congratulations screen appears, turn off your computer using the power button. Then unplug the Aegis Mini from the computer . DO NOT REBOOT THE COMPUTER WIT[...]

www.apricorn.com 19 Read all instructions carefully before creating an image. This is only a quick overview of how to use Create Image Wizard. For detailed instructions, read Chapter 4. Creating a partition (disk) image of the EZ Gig II manual located on the EZ Gig II CD. Imaging y our hard driv e with Create Image Wi zard 1 . Unde r cer t ain co n[...]

Value You Can Depend On 20 4 . This wi ll bring u p the W e lcome to Create Im age Wizard wi ndow . Click nex t to continue . 5 . Atthersts creen,selec tthedriveorpartition( s )youwou ldli keto backupbychec kingtheappropria tebox.C lickthe Ne xt but ton .[...]

www.apricorn.com 21 6. At the Image A rchive Creation Window , nd your Aegis Mini (it may hav e the name Aegis Mini, and the dr ive le t ter will var y depending on the c onguration of your c omputer ). 7 . En ter the image name in t he File Na me text box, loc ated near t he bot tom of the window . Y ou c an enter an y name you wish. It migh[...]

Value You Can Depend On 22 Installation of Cryptainer: 1. Insert Apricorn CD into CD-ROM drive. 2. Setup screen will pop up. Click Cryptainer button. 3. Follow instructions for installation. 4. Upon completion of installation, you can immediately run Cryptainer by checking the box in the Setup Window. If you choose not to run Cryptainer immediately[...]

www.apricorn.com 23 1. Insert Apricorn CD into CD-ROM drive. 2. Setup screen will pop up. Click Second Copy button. 3. Follow instructions for installation. 4. Upon completion of installation, you can immediately run Second Copy by checking the box in the Setup Window. If you choose not to run Second Copy immediately, you can always click the Start[...]

Value You Can Depend On 24 J. SMART-ER Hard Drive Monitor for Windows 1. Insert Apricorn CD into CD-ROM drive. 2. Setup screen will pop up. Click SMART -ER button. 3. The SMAR T -ER Setup program will appear (pictured below) with a text le containing your serial number . Clic k <N ext > 4. The License Agreement Dialog appears. Please read [...]

www.apricorn.com 25 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. O pen this drive by clicking on the newly created disk icon. The below window will open on your screen[...]

Value You Can Depend On 26 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 Synchronize!X.dmg icon 4. This will open the package and mount a drive on your desktop. 5. O pen this drive by clicking on the newly created disk icon. The below window will open on yo[...]

www.apricorn.com 27 M. Apricorn Encrypter 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 Encrypter .dmg icon 4. This will open the package and mount a drive on your desktop. 5. O pen this drive by clicking on the newly created disk icon. The below wi[...]

Value You Can Depend On 28 6. t echnIcAl s upport Apricorn provides the following helpful resources for you: 1. Setup, Software and F AQs sections of the User ’s Guide. 2. Apricorn’s W ebsite ( 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 T echni[...]

www.apricorn.com 29 w ArrAnty c ondItIons One-Y ear W arranty: Apricorn offers a 1-year warranty on the Aegis Mini against defects in materials and workmanship under normal use. The warranty period is effective from the date of purchase either directly from Apricorn or an authorized reseller . Disclaimer and terms of the warranties: THE W ARRANTY B[...]

Value You Can Depend On 30 1. 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 Universal Serial Bus standard, which was originally designed to bring low cost connections and “plug- and-play” consumer devices to the PC world. USB 2.0 adds new functionality t[...]

www.apricorn.com 31 7. The Aegis Mini power LED is on, but the drive is not automatically detected by the operating system. The mass storage device drivers are not installed correctly or there is a resource conict in the system. Use the Windows Add New Hardware Wizard to detect the drive, or , if the drive has already been installed, use the Win[...]

Value You Can Depend On 32 Apricorn’ s Special Edition Cryptainer protects your data by creating multiple encrypted vaults for your important les and folders. Secure your PC and ensure total privacy with Cryptainer powerful 448 bit strong encryption without changing the way you work. Y ou can choose from Blowsh or AES encryption algorithms.[...]

www.apricorn.com 33 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 to use. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs! SuperDuper ’s interface conrms all your actions in simple, c[...]

Value You Can Depend On 34 or XP , you can reformat the drive to NTFS. By reformatting the drive to NTFS, you eliminate the 4GB limitation, but you will also lose any data stored on the drive. Either reformat my Aegis Mini to NTFS before using for the rst time, or backup the data on Aegis before reformatting. 14. I am unable to format my 40GB or[...]

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