Logicube Omniclone Xi User manual

Logicube OmniClone® Xi User Manual I
Logicube OmniClone®Xi User’s Manual
Logicube, Inc.
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Version: 3.1
Date: 12/08/14
MAN-OMNICLONEXI

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Table of Contents
LOGICUBE OMNICLONE®XI USER’S MANUAL................................................................................I
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTY INFORMATION ................................................ II
LOGICUBE DISCLAIMER.......................................................................ERROR!BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
WARRANTY.........................................................................................ERROR!BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
ROHS CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE..................................................ERROR!BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
LOGICUBE DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ........................................ERROR!BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................................................V
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGICUBE OMNICLONE XI.............................................................. 1
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 1
Features................................................................................................................................................ 2
Using this guide .................................................................................................................................... 3
System description ................................................................................................................................ 3
2. GETTING STARTED (FAST START).................................................................................................. 7
APPLYING POWER TO THE LOGICUBE OMNICLONE XI................................................................................ 7
Connecting Parallel (IDE, EIDE, UDMA) Drives ............................................................................................ 7
Connecting Serial ATA (SATA) Drives ........................................................................................................... 8
Connecting other types of drives....................................................................................................................... 8
POWER AND RESET BUTTONS ..................................................................................................................... 9
THE USER INTERFACE ................................................................................................................................. 9
Touch Screen........................................................................................................................................10
Calibrating the Touch Screen.......................................................................................................................... 10
Buttons.................................................................................................................................................10
Indicator Lights....................................................................................................................................11
Buzzer ..................................................................................................................................................11
Installing and Removing the Light Bar................................................................................................12
3. CLONING MODES AND SETTINGS..................................................................................................13
MAIN MENU SCREEN.................................................................................................................................13
Time/Date Settings.......................................................................................................................................... 13
About Screen................................................................................................................................................... 14
Drives.............................................................................................................................................................. 14
A Note about the Back Icon............................................................................................................................ 14
CLONING ...................................................................................................................................................14
Cloning to Target drives greater than 2TB..........................................................................................15
CleverCopy Mode ................................................................................................................................15
CleverCopy Step-by-Step................................................................................................................................ 16
Selective Partitions™ Mode (Optional)...............................................................................................16
Selective Partitions™ Step-by-Step................................................................................................................ 17
MirrorCopy Mode................................................................................................................................19
MirrorCopy Step-by-Step................................................................................................................................ 19
Master Manager Mode (Optional).......................................................................................................20
Master Manager Step-by-Step......................................................................................................................... 21

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CLONING WINDOWS 7 ...............................................................................................................................22
Background Information......................................................................................................................24
Windows 7 non-OEM DVD Installation......................................................................................................... 24
CLONING WINDOWS VISTA .......................................................................................................................25
Vista Installations............................................................................................................................................ 25
Cloning Scenarios and how to handle them.........................................................................................25
A Simple Vista partition with logical drivers.................................................................................................. 25
Vista with RE (Recovery Environment).......................................................................................................... 26
XP/Vista dual boot.......................................................................................................................................... 26
Selective Partitions™...................................................................................................................................... 26
Master Manager™ .......................................................................................................................................... 26
Reference .............................................................................................................................................27
2nd. Option - Sysprep Instructions................................................................................................................... 28
OPTIONAL PREFERENCE SETTINGS ............................................................................................................29
Verify (PIO Speeds only)......................................................................................................................30
Verify Settings ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Speed....................................................................................................................................................30
Geometry..............................................................................................................................................31
CHS Translation Modes.................................................................................................................................. 31
The NTFS Dirty Bit..............................................................................................................................32
How to turn the feature on or off..................................................................................................................... 33
GENERAL PREFERENCES............................................................................................................................33
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................33
On Error (Optional).............................................................................................................................33
On Error Step-by-Step..................................................................................................................................... 34
Set Option ............................................................................................................................................34
Set Option Step-by-Step.................................................................................................................................. 34
Last Drive ............................................................................................................................................35
Last Drive Step-by-Step.................................................................................................................................. 35
Database..............................................................................................................................................35
4. GUID PARTITION TABLE (GPT) DRIVES.......................................................................................36
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................36
Cloning GPT Drives Step-by-Step.................................................................................................................. 36
5. OMNIDIAGNOSTICS™........................................................................................................................39
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................39
OMNIDIAGNOSTICS FEATURES...................................................................................................................39
Scan Target Mode................................................................................................................................39
Scan Target Mode Step-by-Step...................................................................................................................... 40
Repair Target Mode.............................................................................................................................40
Repair Target Mode Step-by-Step................................................................................................................... 40
WipeClean Target Mode......................................................................................................................41
WipeClean Settings......................................................................................................................................... 41
Wipeclean Target Step-by-Step ...................................................................................................................... 42
6. THE DATABASE/BARCODE OPTION ..............................................................................................43
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................43
System Contents ...................................................................................................................................43
Compact Flash (CF) Files ...................................................................................................................43
Breakdown of Config.txt................................................................................................................................. 44
Database.csv.................................................................................................................................................... 45
Database Step–by-Step ........................................................................................................................46
Database Settings Menu ......................................................................................................................47
Creating a New Config List, Step-by-Step...................................................................................................... 48
Printing a Database File .................................................................................................................................. 48
Barcode Scanner..................................................................................................................................50
Barcode Scanner Settings................................................................................................................................ 51

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7. THE SERIAL LINK OPTION...............................................................................................................53
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................53
System Contents ...................................................................................................................................53
SETUP........................................................................................................................................................53
Serial Link Setup Step-by-Step....................................................................................................................... 54
SERIAL LINK COMMANDS..........................................................................................................................55
OTHER NOTES ...........................................................................................................................................56
8. USING THE USB PORT........................................................................................................................57
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................57
Minimum requirements........................................................................................................................57
How to use under Windows (for Master Drive Management) .............................................................57
Removing USB devices ........................................................................................................................58
9. COMPACT FLASH (CF) CARD...........................................................................................................59
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................59
Inserting and Removing the Compact Flash.................................................................................................... 59
CONNECTING THE CF DRIVE TO WINDOWS VIA USB................................................................................59
Connecting Through the Software Setup Menu....................................................................................60
Removing USB devices ........................................................................................................................60
CONFIG.INI FILE ........................................................................................................................................61
Audible Buzzer .....................................................................................................................................61
Dirty Bit for NTFS CleverCopy ...........................................................................................................61
10. USER REPLACEABLE HARDWARE ..............................................................................................62
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................62
Drive Cables ........................................................................................................................................62
Proper Handling of Drive Cables.................................................................................................................... 62
Drive Stations ......................................................................................................................................63
Removal of a Drive Station............................................................................................................................. 63
Installation of a Drive Station ......................................................................................................................... 63
Power Supply.......................................................................................................................................64
Removal and Installation of the Power Supply ............................................................................................... 64
11. VERIFICATION STATION ................................................................................................................65
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................65
INSTALLATION...........................................................................................................................................65
GENERATING THE MASTER MD5 HASH VALUE ........................................................................................66
Preparing the Checksum.txt File..........................................................................................................67
HOW TO USE THE VERIFICATION STATION.................................................................................................68
Generating the Master MD5 Hash Value using the OmniClone Xi.....................................................68
Cloning and Verifying in One Session .................................................................................................69
Verification Scanning Separately.........................................................................................................70
12. COMBO STATION...............................................................................................................................71
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................71
HOW TO INSTALL.......................................................................................................................................71
HOW TO USE THE COMBO STATION ...........................................................................................................72
How to connect drives to the Combo Station.......................................................................................72
Notes ....................................................................................................................................................73
13. SOFTWARE LOADING INSTRUCTIONS.......................................................................................74
LOGICUBE OMNICLONE XI SOFTWARE UPDATING PROCEDURES..............................................................74
Loading Software Using the Compact Flash .......................................................................................74
14. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ................................................................76

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FAQ’S.......................................................................................................................................................76
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE .......................................................................................................................79
15. REFERENCE ........................................................................................................................................82
GLOSSARY.................................................................................................................................................82
16. INDEX....................................................................................................................................................88
TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION .......................................................................................................90

Logicube OmniClone® Xi User’s Manual 1
1. Introduction to the Logicube OmniClone Xi
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Logicube
OmniClone Xi. You are now the proud owner of a
state-of-the-art IDE/SATA disk cloning device. The
OmniClone Xi is designed to be easy enough to be
used by a novice, yet offers many professional
features that are not available anywhere else.
The Logicube OmniClone Xi copies the contents of
one hard disk drive to one or more others
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. The first
drive is typically called the Master, while the
subsequent drives are called Targets. It performs
the copy at speeds that are typically 16 to 32 times
faster than they would be on a PC. The OmniClone
Xi first analyzes the partitions on the Master, then
acts according to a user set mode. Depending on
the mode, the unit will adjust structures to ensure
the validity of the Targets. This process is called
disk cloning.
This manual covers the following Logicube
products: OC2Xi, OC5Xi and OC10Xi. The OC2Xi
can clone two target drives, the OC5Xi can clone 5
target drives and the OC10Xi can clone ten target
drives simultaneously
What Are Partitions?
Partitions are areas on the drive that define a
storage unit. Each partition is represented by a
drive letter at the operating system level (e.g. C:,
D:,...). For that reason, partitions are commonly
called logical drives, or volumes. A partition is
also associated with a file system, or a structure
for laying out files on the partition. We will use these
four words interchangeably throughout this manual.
Hundreds of different types of file systems have
been designed through the years. Only a handful
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are in common use. Among those are FAT16,
FAT32, and NTFS.
FAT16 –The file system used by DOS since
version 3.3. This file system can be a maximum
size of 2GB, and can be used under Windows NT,
95, 98, ME, and 2000. FAT is the acronym of File
Allocation Table, with entries that are 16 bit wide,
hence the FAT16 name.
FAT32 –Supported by Windows 98, ME, 2000, and
XP. Entries in the FAT are 32 bits each thus
eliminating the 2GB limit and offering improved
space efficiency.
NTFS –Supported by Windows NT, 2000, XP,
Vista,and 7. Offers improved access speed, and
some security and recoverability features.
The Logicube OmniClone Xi is “aware” of the above
three file systems and will clone them over
“intelligently”.
Features
Clones any IDE, EIDE (PATA) or Serial ATA
Drive.
Data transfer rates in excess of 3.5 GB/min.
Master and Target drives can be of different
size, make and model.
Master drive can contain up to 24 partitions.
Easy to read graphical interface.
Calibrated touch screen for fast input of
settings and data.
Light Bar and buzzer show unit status and
alert operator of any errors.
Automatically scales FAT16/32, NT
4.0/5.0/6.0, and Windows 2000/XP, Vista,
and 7 partitions.
USB port connectivity for the compact Flash.
Optional diagnostics software for drive
scanning and repairing, data recovery, and
Department of Defense (DoD) specification
data wiping.
User-replaceable drive station modules and
power supply for ease of maintenance.
Removable Compact Flash (CF) Drive.