Apricorn EZ Upgrade User manual

User’s Guide
NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE UPGRADE KIT
Attention:
If your EZ Upgrade 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 EZ Upgrade FAQ’s at:
http://www.apricorn.com/support.php
EZ Upgrade

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 SATAhard drives 6
For PATA/IDE hard drives 7
Once your hard drive is connected 7
Before Running the Software 8
Before running EZ Gig we recommend 8
EZ Gig instructions for Windows 7 & Vista 9
Changing the default “Power Options” 9
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) 10
To start EZ Gig directly from the CD-ROM 10
Connecting Your Hard Drive 11
EZ Gig Start Up Options 11
Creating a Bootable EZ Gig CD 12
Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig 13
Selecting the Source Drive 14
Selecting the Destination Drive 15
Speed Test 15
Drive Verication 16
Data Select 17
Using the Data Select feature 18
Analyzing les 19
Selecting Folders to Omit 20
Advanced Options 21
Verify Copy 21
Copy Free Areas 21
SmartCopy 21
Media Direct (Dell) 21

More Advanced Options 22
FastCopy 22
SafeRescue 22
CachedMemory 22
SharedMemory 22
Animation 22
HotCopy / LiveImage 23
Avoid exclusive read access 23
Partitions 24
Resizing your partitions manually 25
Start Clone 26
Interupting the Cloning Process 27
Aborting the Cloning Process 27
Interupting the Verication process 27
Congratulations your Clone is Complete 28
SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 29
After the Clone 30
Using the EZ Upgrade as a external backup drive 30
Device Removal (Windows) 31
EZ Upgrade FAQs 32
EZ Gig FAQs 35
Contacting Technical Support 40
RMA Policy 40
Warranty Conditions 41

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Getting to know your EZ Upgrade
Introduction
EZ Upgrade kit is a complete hardware and
software solution that makes upgrading
notebook hard drives fast and easy. This
kit includes everything you will need to
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applications and the operating system from
the hard drive in your notebook to a new
SATA or PATA/IDE hard drive whether you
have a Windows or Mac operating system.
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solution.
The Package Contains
EZ Upgrade Enclosure for SATA & PATA/IDE Hard Drives
USB Cable for Data and Power
Upgrade Suite CD
• Apricorn EZ Gig IV with Data Select
• ShirtPocket SuperDuper! Lite
Quick Start Guide
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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
NOTE: If used with Windows 2000, EZ Gig must be booted
from the CD
Mac: OS 9.2 or later
OS X 10.2 or later

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Hard Drive Installation
Follow these steps to install the Hard Disk into the EZ Upgrade Enclosure:
Step 1 Hold the EZ UP enclosure with both hands. Locate the OPEN switch
(diagram 1) and with one hand over the opposite end of the drive slide
the OPEN switch in the direction of the arrow to release the hard drive
tray. The hard drive tray will slide out of the enclosure into your other
hand. (diagram 2)
Step 2 Instructions for inserting the hard drive. (diagram 3)
For SATA hard drives:
Hold the hard drive tray in one hand with the SATA connector (the
connector that is closest to the plastic end cap where you connect the
cables) away from your body. Now, with the label side up grab the sides
of the hard drive with the other hand and set the hard drive into the tray
with the SATA blade connector away from your body. Carefully slide
the hard drive by placing your thumb on the back edge and pushing it
towards the black socket facing away from your body until it is completely
seated. The sidewalls of the hard drive tray will act as a guide, properly
aligning the SATA blade connector.
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2
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SATA
PATA
SATA
PATA
3
USB
Mini
Port Power
Port
Connecting your EZ Upgrade

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For PATA/IDE hard drives:
Hold the hard drive tray in one hand with the PATA/IDE connector (the
connector that is furthest from the plastic end cap where you connect the
cables) away from your body. Now, with the label side up grab the sides
of the hard drive with the other hand set drive into the tray with the PATA/
IDE gold pins away from your body. Carefully slide the hard drive by
placing your thumb on the back edge and pushing it towards the aligning
the gold pins with the black connector facing away from your body until
it is completely seated. The sidewalls of the hard drive tray will act as a
guide, properly aligning the gold pins (PATA/IDE) with the black socket
and ensuring a proper connection. On PATA/IDE hard drives, if parts of
the pins are still visible, the drive is not completely seated.
For Upgrades Proceed to Step 4. To permanently mount your old hard
drive proceed to Step 3.
Step 3 Turn over the hard drive tray and secure the hard drive with the four
screws.
Step 4 Once the drive is secured, slide it back into the tray. Make sure the
Apricorn logo is facing up and the hard drive tray slides into the
enclosure with the label side of the hard drive facing up. When the tray
completely slides in you will hear the latch snap shut as the hard drive
tray locks into place.
Step 5 Connect the USB Mini end into the open port on the EZ Upgrade and
then connect the other side of the cable into an open USB port on your
computer. (diagram 4)
If additional power is needed use the optional AC power adapter.
Once your hard drive is
connected
Now you can upgrade your notebook
drive using the Upgrade Suite CD.
InstructionsforupgradingyourMicrosoft
computer are provided on the following
pages. If you are upgrading your Mac,
please refer to page 25.

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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.
Before Running the Software

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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.
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Connecting Your Hard Drive
Before starting the EZ Gig III software,
please ensure that your new hard drive
is connected to your notebook’s USB
port via the EZ Upgrade. EZ Gig III
automatically veries which Apricorn
upgrade product is being used. If used
without one of Apricorn’s upgrade
products, EZ Gig III will not work.
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).

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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).