Fujitsu RE25U User manual
User Manual
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Ta b l e o f Co n T e n T s
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1. Introduction ................................................................................... 4
2. About your 2.5” External Hard Drive ........................................... 5
wSystem Requirements ............................................................... 5
wPackage Contents .................................................................... 5
w Specications ............................................................................. 6
3. Set-Up ............................................................................................ 7
wInstallation .................................................................................. 7
wDisconnecting ........................................................................... 8
wReformatting your hard drive ................................................. 10
4. Software ....................................................................................... 12
wBefore you backup ................................................................. 12
wEZ Gig II ..................................................................................... 13
wMicrosoft SyncToy .................................................................... 24
wSMART-ER .................................................................................. 25
5. Technical Support ...................................................................... 26
w Contact Information ............................................................... 26
w RMA Policy ................................................................................. 26
wWarranty ................................................................................... 27
6. FAQs .............................................................................................. 29
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Thank you for purchasing the
Fujitsu 2.5” External Hard Drive
.
2.5” External Hard Drive
The
2.5” External Hard Drive
hard drive is ideal for storing, sharing or
backing up your valuable data. Don’t be fooled by the
2.5” External Hard
Drive’s
includes extensive shock mounting, and a sleek, durable enclosure.
The
2.5” External Hard Drive
is features a convenient, integrated cable,
required.
In addition the
2.5” External Hard Drive
protects your data from the rigors
Data Protection Software Suite
®OS.
2.5” External
Hard Drive
is the ideal mobile solution for transferring, storing and protecting
your valuable data.
1. In t r o d u c t I o n
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2. Ge t t I n G t o k n o w y o u r 2.5” ex t e r n a l Hdd
A. System Requirements
Hardware: Pentium®®G3 or later
Operating systems:
® ®
®XP Home and Professional
®Vista
®
B. Package Contents
Data Protection Suite for Windows®
®
®
®
1 meter
extension cable
Quick Start
Guide
Hard Drive
6
C. Specications
Features Benets
on trips
or your entire system, OS settings and all
hard drive. In the event of a hard drive failure
you can be up and running in minutes
plug and go
desktop and notebook computers
®
and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.
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3. Se t -up
A. Installation
Windows®2000, XP and Vista:
2.5” External Hard Drive
port on your computer.
3. The “New Hardware Found”
computer screen.
®
the operating system. No user intervention is required.
Macintosh®:
2.5” External Hard Drive
port on your computer.
on your computer.
Note:
USB Y-cable
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B. Disconnecting
Windows®2000, XP and Vista
“Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the
2.5” External Hard Drive
.
removed. If you receive an error message that says “The device
cannot be stopped right now
. Try stopping the device again
later.”
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B. Disconnecting
Macintosh®
2.5”
External Hard Drive
on the desk top to the “Trash Can”.
remove the drive
2.5” External Hard Drive
.
you receive an error message that says “The disk “Fujitsu HDD”
is in use and could not be ejected”
.
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Reformatting Your Hard Drive
The
2.5” External Hard Drive’s
2.5” External Hard Drive
Reformatting Windows®2000, XP and Vista (NTFS File
System):
1
1. Open “My Computer” or “Windows Explorer”.
Fujitsu HDD
drive and select Format.
a. In the File system
“Default allocation unit”
Format options:
i. Select Quick Format
ii. Do not Enable Compression.
Start button.
a. GotoMyComputerorWindowsExplorer,rightclickonthe
Fujitsu
HDD
drive, and select Properties from the list.
Fujitsu HDD
hard drive properties. The File
System
Reformatting your hard drive will destroy any data on the
hard drive. Backup any data before you continue with this
operation.
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Reformatting with Mac OS X
1 Plug the cable from your
2.5” External Hard Drive
into your computer.
folder and select Disk Utilities.
3. Select the drive from the list: Note that a description of the drive appears
4. Select the Erase
Mac OS Extended.
Fujitsu HDD
into the Name box.
7. Select the check box next to Install Mac OS 9 Drivers
you to see your
Fujitsu HDD
Erase
process.
Erase: to start the formatting process.
2.5” External Hard Drive
hard drive is properly
formatted, Select the
Fujitsu HDD
, then Select: File, Get Info. The
Reformatting your hard drive will destroy any data on the
hard drive. Backup any data before you continue with this
operation.
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Before You Backup!
photos, digital videos and other important computer documents from being
lost forever.
smoothly:
Windows Check
Disk
disk drive.
Windows
Disk Defragmenter
system.
clone of your hard drive.
4. So f t w a r e
Whenever the
2.5” External Hard Drive
Image the data cables on the
2.5” External Hard Drive
should
IF NOT
DAMAGE CAN OCCUR TO YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM
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Installation of Apricorn’s EZ Gig II for Windows®
EZ GIG II button.
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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
Approval Mode whenever a program tries to install on your Windows Vista
system. If the User Account Control window does not pop up, please skip
to the EZ Gig II installation.
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 II main
installation screen.
Change the default “Power Options” for Windows Vista operating
systems:
Be default Windows Vista 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 backup most of
today’s larger hard drives. If the system goes into display is turned off or
the computer goes to sleep during the backup, your backup may fail. This
will not damage your original hard drive in any way but you will have to
restart the backup. To avoid this issue change the default “Power Options”
before starting the backup on Windows Vista Systems.
From your Window Vista 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 backup go to “Power Options” and restore
the default settings.
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Cloning your hard drive with Disk Clone
that you clone your hard drive by starting up the program inside the
2.5” External Hard Drive
is connected to your computer.
Start > Programs >Fujitsu >EZ Gig II
and
click on EZ Gig II.
can also click on the EZ Gig II icon on the Desktop.
“Disk Clone”
Read all instructions carefully before cloning. This is only
a quick overview of how to use Disk Clone. For detailed
instructions, read Chapter 7 “Transferring the system to a
new disk” located in the EZ Gig II manual located on the Data
Protection Suite CD
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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.
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.
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7. The Source Hard Disk screen will appear. Select the appropriate source
hard disk. The interface 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 typically your new hard
disk drive. Click Next to Continue.
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9. The Nonempty Destination Hard Disk screen will appear when you have
selected to transfer data to a drive that already contains data. If you have
chosen the proper source and destination drives, then select the “Delete
partitions on the destination hard disk” button. Click Next to continue.
Note:Ifyouneedtoconrmthatyouhaveselectedtheproper
sourceanddestinationdrives,clicktheBackbuttontocheck.
10. The next screen outlines the operations that Disk Clone will perform.
Click Proceed to continue with cloning your hard disk drive.
12. The computer will reboot and the cloning process will now begin.
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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,turnoffyourcomputerusingthepowerbutton.Then
unplugtheApricornproductfromthecomputer.DONOTREBOOT
THECOMPUTERWITHACLONEDHARDDRIVEINTHEApricorn
product. To do so may alter some settings of the Windows
operatingsystem.
13. You have completed the cloning process and now have an exact bootable
clone of your hard drive.
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Readallinstructionscarefullybeforecloning.Thisisonlyaquick
overview of how to use Create Image Wizard in Typical Mode
using the default options. For detailed instructions including
howtosettheoptionsmanuallyreadChapter5“CreatingBackup
Archives”locatedintheEZGigIIUserGuidelocatedontheFujitsu
softwareCDthatcamewithyourFujitsu2.5”ExternalHardDrive.
Alternately if you have installed EZ GIG II on Windows, go to:
start/AllPrograms/Fujitsu/ApricornEZGigII/ApricornEZGigII
UserGuide
ImagingyourharddrivewithCreateImageWizard
1. Undercertainconditions,ApricornEZGigIImayrequireyour
computertoreboot.PleasesaveallworkbeforestartingApricorn
EZGigII.
2. To start EZ Gig II, click Start >Programs >Fujitsu >EZ Gig II
and
click on Apricorn EZ Gig II. This will open the main screen of EZ Gig II.
You can also click on the Apricorn EZ Gig II icon on the Desktop.
3. Double Click on the Backup icon from the main screen to open Create
Image Wizard.
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