Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 User manual

User’s Guide
USB 3.0 to 2.5”SATA CONNECTOR
SATA Wire
Attention:
If your SATA Wire shipped with a previous
version of EZ Gig III, you can download the new
EZ Gig IV from Apricorn’s website at:
http://www.apricorn.com/ezgig
Review the most current SATA Wire FAQ’s at:
http://www.apricorn.com/support.php
3.0

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting to know your SATA Wire 4
Introduction 4
The Package Contains 4
System Requirements 4
Connecting your SATA Wire 5
Device Installation 5
Before Running the Software 6
Before running EZ Gig we recommend 6
EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista 7
Changing the default “Power Options” 7
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) 8
To start EZ Gig directly from the CD-ROM 8
Connecting Your Hard Drive 9
EZ Gig Start Up Options 9
Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD 10
Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 11
Selecting the Source Drive 12
Selecting the Destination Drive 13
Speed Test 13
Drive Verication 14
Data Select 15
Using the Data Select feature 16
Analyzing les 17
Selecting Folders to Omit 18
Advanced Options 19
Verify Copy 19
Copy Free Areas 19
SmartCopy 19
Media Direct (Dell) 19
More Advanced Options 20
FastCopy 20
SafeRescue 20
CachedMemory 20

SharedMemory 20
Animation 20
HotCopy / LiveImage 21
Avoid exclusive read access 21
Partitions 22
Resizing your partitions manually 23
Start Clone 24
Interupting the Cloning Process 25
Aborting the Cloning Process 25
Interupting the Verication process 25
Congratulations your Clone is Complete 26
SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 27
After the Clone 28
Using the SATA Wire as a external backup drive 28
Device Removal (Windows) 29
SATA Wire FAQs 30
EZ Gig FAQs 33
Contacting Technical Support 38
RMA Policy 38
Warranty Conditions 39

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Getting to know your SATA Wire
Introduction
The SATA Wire is perfect for transferring data to bare drives. Use it to
connect any 2.5” SATA notebook hard drive to your computer. With the
help of Apricorn’s user-friendly cloning software, you can clone or backup
your notebook drive in a snap.
The Package Contains
• SATA Wire 3.0
• Upgrade Suite CD
• Apricorn EZ Gig IV
• ShirtPocket SuperDuper! Lite
• Quick Start Guide
System Requirements
Hardware: Pentium CPU II or Apple G3 or later
128MBs RAM
Available USB Port
CD ROM or CD-RW drive
Supported Operating systems:
Microsoft: Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000
Mac: OS 9.2 or later
OS X 10.2 or later

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Device Installation
Installing your SATAWire is easy. Simply connect your 2.5” SATAdrive
to the SATAWire and connect the SATAWire to your computer USB port
(for optimal data transfer speeds connect to a USB 3.0 port, SATA Wire
is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0). Now you can upgrade your
notebook drive using the Upgrade Suite CD. Instructions for upgrading
your Microsoft computer are provided on the following pages. If you are
upgrading your Mac, please refer to page 27.
Connecting your SATA Wire

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After many years of use, hard drives can become cluttered with unusable
le fragments and other le-system errors. Most le system errors are not
immediately obvious to the user, but can be identied and repaired with a
few simple steps. Although the steps below are not absolutely necessary to
run EZ Gig, it’s best to try and clean-up disk errors BEFORE they are copied
over to the new drive.
Before running EZ Gig we recommend
1) Clean up any le-system errors by running Windows
ScanDisk (or a similar disk cleanup utility) on your internal
hard drive.
2) Defragment your hard drive using the Windows Disk-
Defragment Utility (or a similar disk defragment utility) on
your internal hard drive.
3) Backup any critical les or data.
4) Attach theAC adapter to your laptop, and make sure it is not
running on battery power.
5) Attach the USB cable from your computer to the DriveWire.
6) If you plan on running EZ Gig from the Bootable CD-ROM:
You may need to change your laptop’s BIOS boot order. You
will nd these options inside the laptop’s BIOS Boot Option
Menu. The BIOS Boot Options menu allows the user to
select the preferred boot device when the laptop starts up.
EZ Gig can boot directly from the CD-ROM but you must
check the BIOS Boot settings to make sure that “CD-ROM”
is higher in the boot order than the C: drive.
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EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista
Windows 7 and Vista UserAccount Control helps stop unauthorized
changes to your computer. The UserAccount Control window pops up in
Administrator Approval Mode whenever a program tries to run on your
Windows system.
When the User Account Control window pops up there will be a warning
symbol and message that reads, “A program needs your permission to
continue.” The instructions will read “If you started this program, Continue.”
Please click the Continue button and proceed to the EZ Gig Start-Up
screen.
Changing the default “Power Options”
Be default the Windows 7 operating system will “Turn display off” after 20
minutes and “Put the computer to sleep” after 1 hour of keyboard or mouse
inactivity. It will take more than 20 minutes to clone most of today’s larger
hard drives. If the system goes into display is turned off or the computer
goes to sleep during the clone, your clone may fail. This will not damage
your original hard drive in any way but you will have to restart the cloning
process. To avoid this issue change the default “Power Options” before
starting the backup on Windows 7 Systems.
From your Window Start menu type “Power Options” in the “Start Search
bar” and the “Power Options” program will be listed in the results window.
Alternately you can go to Start Menu – Control Panel – Power Options.
Click on “Power Options” to launch the program. On the left window click
on “Choose when to turn off display” and make the changes as listed
below.
Turn Display Off Never
Put computer to sleep Never
Once you have completed the clone go to “Power Options” and restore the
default settings.

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Upgrade Suite CD is a bootable disk with EZ Gig data transfer utility that
can copy hard drives without booting to the Windows operating system. To
use Upgrade Suite as a stand-alone utility, your Computer must be able
to boot from a CD-ROM, and the CD-ROM must be set as the rst boot
device in your computer’s System BIOS.
NOTE: The System BIOS controls basic hardware functions in computer,
and is the rst screen that appears when booting your computer (i.e. before
the Windows Startup Logo appears on screen). Consult your Computer’s
User Manual for instructions on how to enter the System BIOS and change
the boot order.
To start EZ Gig directly from the CD-ROM
1) Insert the Upgrade Suite CD into your CD-ROM Drive.
2) Turn on the Computer and go immediately into the system
BIOS screen.
3) Set the CD-ROM as the First Boot device. Save your changes
and Exit the BIOS to reboot the computer.
Helpful tip:
Some newer computers display a “Boot Options” message during
startup. Pressing the boot options key allows the user to temporarily
change the boot-order of the system. Use this option to boot from
the CD-ROM without changing the BIOS settings. The actual keys to
activate this option will depend upon the manufacturer (some BIOS
use the <F12> key, others use the <ESC> key), and the boot option
is only available for a few seconds at startup before the BIOS falls
back into the normal boot order.
4) Once the BIOS is set correctly, the CD-ROM should boot-up the
computer and start the EZ Gig software.
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot)

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Connecting Your Hard Drive
EZ Gig
Start Up Options
Depending on how you received EZ Gig, you have two options.
If you have EZ Gig on a CD, please choose the Start option (proceed1. to page 11 of this manual to continue).
If you downloaded EZ Gig from Apricorn’s website, you can either2. choose the Start option (go to page 11) or create a bootable EZ Gig
CD to use in the future (go to page 10 for instructions).
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.

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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, oppy 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 oppy disk, choose the desired •
drive at ‘Floppy drive’ and click “Create oppy”.
To create a bootable CD/DVD, choose the desired drive at ‘CD/• DVD writer’ and click “Create CD/DVD”.
To create a bootable USB key, choose the desired drive at ‘USB• medium’ and click “Make bootable”.
Follow the instructions and wait until the installation program reports
successful creation of the bootable medium.
Once you have created you bootable media device, click “Exit” and then
choose “Start EZ Gig”.

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Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig
Click the “Let’s Get Started” button to proceed.1.
EZ Gig will then scan for connected drives. This may take a few2. moments.

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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
prex AHCI or IDE.
Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click “Next” to continue.

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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 prex USB
Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click “Next” to continue.
Click the Speed Test icon
on either the Source or
Destination drive for an
estimate of the drive’s read
speed.
From this estimate, a rough
estimate of the clone time
may be gauged
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Drive Verication
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 24) or to deselect les from the cloning process,
press the “Data Select” button (go to page 15).
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. Only select this option if you would like
to change your options from the default (go to page 19 for more info on
Advanced Options).

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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 les on your
original hard drive.
There are two ways to get to the Data Select feature:
If the Destination drive is smaller than the Source drive, EZ Gig 1.
will direct you to the below screen. To deselect les from the
clone click the “Data Select” button, this will open the Data Select
feature.
On the “You are almost ready to Clone” screen, you may press 2. the “Data Select” button to open the Data Select feature.

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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. the Source image), EZ Gig
enables you to deselect les from the cloning process to save space.
The les you may deselect from the cloning process are from the folders:
Documents1.
My Videos2.
My Music3.
My Pictures4.

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Analyzing les
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.
EZ Gig will then
display the space
used in the ajoining
column

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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 reected 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. The Data Select button will have a check mark to the
left, indicating that you have choosen to omit les from the clone.
To continue with the clone, click the “Next” button (go to page 21).

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Advanced Options
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 inuence 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. Choose this option according to
your needs of copying and your time available.
Verify Copy
SmartCopy enables you to clone your le systems in a fraction of time
usually required - this option is chosen by default
SmartCopy
This option is off when doing a default clone, but when selected allows
you to copy free space between partitions from your internal drive to your
external drive.
Copy Free Areas
Used to deactivate MediaDirect software on the Destination drive. Check
your Dell notebook specs to see if you have Media Direct on your system.
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To access additional advanced options, click on the Apricorn logo in the
bottom right corner of the “Advanced Options” window
More Advanced Options
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.
Animation
Switch off copy animation, may lead to a slight speed increase.