Apricorn Aegis Portable A25-USB 500GB manual

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Copyright © Apricorn, Inc. 2008. All rights reserv ed. Windows ® is a registered tr ademark of Microsoft ® Corpor ation. Macintosh ® and OS X are registered tr ademarks of Apple ® Computer , Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Anytime (GB) is used in this document: One gigabyte (GB)[...]

T a b l e o f C o n T e n T s P age# 1. Introducti on ........................................................................... 4 2. Getting to know your Aegis P ortable ..... ................ ................ .... 5 w S ystem R equirement s .......................................................... 5 w P ackage Contents .........................[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 4 Thank you for pur chasing the Aegis Portable USB 2.0 or FireWire .              Aegis[...]

www .apricorn.com 5 2. G e T T I n G T o k n o w y o u r a e G I s P o r T a b l e System Requirements Hardware: P entium II CPU or Apple G3 or later 128MB RAM USB P ort or FireWire P ort CD ROM or CD-RW drive Operating systems: Microsoft: Windows Vista Home Basic/Premium, Ultimate & Business Windows XP Home and Professional Windows 2000 Profes[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 6 Specications Parameter Data T ransfer Rates Up to 480 Mbps USB and 400 Mbps 1394 P ower USB or Firewire P owered Interface Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or 1394 FireWir e Buffer Size 8MB RPM 5400 Av erage Seek Time 12ms V oltage 5 V olts +/- 5% Shock - non operating 1000G 1ms Shock - operating 300G 2ms Dimensions 19mm x 84.5mm x 1[...]

www .apricorn.com 7 3. s e T -u P Installation Windows 2000, XP and Vista: 1. Ensure your computer is turned on. 2. Plug the Aegis Portable USB or FireWire cable into the appropriate open port on your computer . 3. The “New Hardware Found”    ?[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 8 Disconnecting Windows 2000, XP and Vista 1) Locate the system tra y on your Windows Desktop (the system tr ay is the part of the taskbar that displays the date and time). 2) Click on the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the system tra y . A dialog bo x will appear . 3) Click ‘Safely R emove hard disk – Drive (D:)[...]

www .apricorn.com 9 Disconnecting Macintosh 1. The drive will need to be dismounted. Do this by dragging the Aegis Portable on the desk top to the “Trash Can” . 2 W ait a few seconds for the drive to unmount and then you can safely remove the driv e Aegis Portable .  [...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 10 Reformatting Your Hard Drive Y our Aegis Portable’s hard drive is preformatted with the F A T32 Windows File      ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 11 Reformatting with Mac OS X 1 Plug the cable fr om your Aegis Portable 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” f older and select Disk Utilities . 3. Select the drive from the list: Note that a description of the [...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 12 Before You Backup! With more of your work and personal life becoming digitized, backups are essential.          ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 13 EZ Gig II installation instructions for Windows Vista: Windows Vista’ s User Account Control helps stop unauthorized changes to your computer . The User Account Control window pops up in Administrator Approv al Mode whenever a progr am tries to install on your Windows Vista system. If the User Account Control window does not [...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 14 EZ Gig II for Windows 1. Insert Apricorn CD into your CD-ROM driv e. 2. Setup screen will pop up. Click Install EZ GIG II button. 3. EZ Gig II installation screen will pop up. 4. F ollow instructions for installation.[...]

www .apricorn.com 15 Read all instructions carefully before cloning. This is only a quick overview of how to use Disk Clone in Typical Mode. For detailed instructions including the custom options read Chapter 10 “Transferring the system to a new disk” located in the EZ Gig II User Guide located on the Apricorn software CD that came with your Ap[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 16 4. When you see the Welcome to the Disk Clone Wizard! screen. Click Next to continue. 5. The Clone Mode screen will appear . Select typical and click Next to continue.   ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 17 7 . The Source Hard Disk screen will appear . Select the appropriate source hard disk. The interf ace and disk size can be used to help identify the correct disk number . Click Next to continue. 8. The Destination Hard Disk screen will appear . Select the appropriate destination hard disk. The destination hard disk is t ypicall[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 18 9. The Nonempty Destination Hard Disk screen will appear when you ha ve selected to transf er data to a drive that already contains data. If y ou hav e chosen the proper source and destination driv es, then select the “Delete partitions on the destination hard disk” button. Click Next to continue.  Note:Ify[...]

www .apricorn.com 19 Do not turn your computer off during this process. However, your computer will reboot itself during the clone process (this is normal) and you should 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 Apricorn[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 20 Read all instructions carefully before cloning. This is only a quick overview of how to use Create Image Wizard in Typical Mode using the default options. For detailed instructions including how to set the options manually read Chapter 5 “Creating Backup Archives” located in the EZ Gig II User Guide located on the A[...]

www .apricorn.com 21 4 . This w ill bri ng up the W e lcome t o Cre ate Image Wizard window . Click Nex t to continu e. 5 . A t the Part ition S elec tion s creen, sele ct the disk or par tition( s ) you would l ik e to back up by check ing the appropria te box. Cl ick Ne xt to continu e.    Bac kup I mage Lo cation[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 22 7 . Enter the image name in the File Name tex t bo x, located near the bott om of the windo w . Y ou can enter an y name you wish . I t migh t be a goo d idea to use          ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 23 9 . The Image Ar chive Comment s window will open. Y o u can use this window to write c omments ab out the image ( such a s the imaging date, c omputer , operating syste m , etc. ) . Click Nex t to continue. 1 0. This will ope n the Apricorn Disk Image Arc hiv e File Creation S cript window . V erif y t he operations liste d in[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 24 1 2. BACK UP COMPLE TE ! ! ! The Apricorn product now c ontains a complete image of the selec te d dr ive or partition( s ). 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.      ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 25 Microsoft SyncToy 1.4 download Microsoft ® Sync T o y 1.4 for Windows is av ailable as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center . The easy to use, customizable application helps  ?[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 26 1. Insert Apricorn CD into your CD-ROM driv e 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 b y clicking on the newly created disk icon. The below window will open o[...]

www .apricorn.com 27 1. Insert Apricorn CD into your CD-ROM driv e 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 . Open this drive b y clicking on the newly created disk icon. The below window will open on your[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 28 5. T e C h n I C a l s u P P o r T Apricorn provides the f ollowing helpful resources f or you:     2. Apricorn’ s Website ( http://www.apricorn.com[...]

www .apricorn.com 29 w a r r a n T y C o n d I T I o n s Three-Year Warranty: Apricorn offers a 3-y ear warr anty on the Aegis Portable against defects in materials and workmanship under normal use. The warr anty period is effectiv e from the date of purchase either directly f rom Apricorn or an authorized reseller . Disclaimer and terms of the war[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 30 1. What is USB 2.0? USB 2.0 represents the next generation of PC peripherals and connectivity .           ?[...]

www .apricorn.com 31 7. The Aegis Portable 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        ?[...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 32 SMART-ER By pol ling the S.M.A.R.T . data from a hard drive, SMAR T -ER gives the user advanced warning of a hard drive failure with a pop up message or e-mail to the IT administr ator . Using less than 1MB of system resources, SMART -ER also monitors the hard drive free space and is compatible with Windows PC with IDE [...]

www .apricorn.com 33 12. Isitpossibletorestore asinglelefroman imagestoredonmy Ae- gis Portable ? Yes. EZ Gig II allows you to mount an image as a “virtual” hard drive. Y ou can access this “virtual” drive as if it was a physical hard drive. Y ou would use your Windows Explorer or My Computer [...]

V alue Y ou Can Depend On 34 Open The Startup Disk Control P anel and Select the FireWire 18. What is Microsoft ® SyncToy 1.4 download? Microsoft ® S ync T oy 1.4 for Windows is av ailable as a free download f rom the Microsoft Download Center . The easy to use, customizable application helps  ?[...]

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