User manual APRICORN EZ GIG III

[. . . ] Once you have created you bootable media device, click "Exit" and then choose "Start EZ Gig III". www. apricorn. com 7 Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig III 1. This may take a few moments. 8 www. apricorn. com Selecting the Source Drive Once EZ Gig III 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 prefix IDE Select the appropriate drive from the menu and click "Next" to continue. www. apricorn. com 9 Selecting the Destination Drive Once you have selected your Source Drive, EZ Gig will ask you to select your Destination Drive. [. . . ] To get a report of the cloning process, click the "Details" button. The final report will outline the number of sector copied, read errors, write errors and if verified, will also report verification errors. You will then be prompted to turn your computer off and disconnect the attached hard drive. www. apricorn. com 19 FAQs Load errors During the start of the program, before EZ Gig III is loaded itself, a message and a progress bar will appear on the boot screen. In case of an error, one of the following error codes will be indicated here. Error #5002 and `Disk error' This error will be displayed if the boot medium is not readable when booting the program. The error is reported by the BIOS of the computer and points to a defective data carrier or a problem with the used boot drive. In many cases, in particular when booting from a floppy disk, an incompatibility between drive and data carrier is the cause. Please try the following steps, at best in the indicated order: · · · · · Try again to boot the program, perhaps with/without cold start. Floppy disk: format the floppy disk (no quick format) before creating a new one. Perhaps the controller which the disk is connected to has not been found (See next section: IDE controller not found). A further possible reason can be a non-standardly connected hard disk. This is for example the case if a hard disk is configured as slave and if a CD/DVD drive or no drive at all is connected at the same IDE channel as master. Normally, EZ Gig III can handle that, too. www. apricorn. com 21 NOTE: If an SATA hard disk is not recognized, this can also be due to the used SATA controller. IDE controller not found There are the following three reasons why EZ Gig III has not automatically recognized an IDE controller: · · The IDE controller/channel is deactivated, e. g. Standard IDE controllers (ISA) are not taken into account if PCI IDE controllers are available. Connect the respective hard disk to a PCI IDE controller in this case or deactivate the PCI IDE controller or controllers. Although most controllers support this standardized programming interface, there are some controllers which have only a proprietary programming interface. Connect the corresponding drives to another controller (PCI IDE controller). · Source & Destination Size Differences Equal Size If source and target are of the same size, EZ Gig III creates an absolutely identical copy(clone). On this clone, all sectors on source and target, from the first to the last sector, are 100% identical, provided that the process was error-free. Small to large If the source is smaller than the target, EZ Gig III copies only the data that is available on the source. This data is copied from the beginning of the source onto the beginning of the target medium. The area at the end of the target medium, which is larger than the source, remains unaffected. Apart from that the unaffected area remains possibly unused during a later usage, such a copy is usually comparable to a real clone as far as the capacity of use is concerned because the target contains entirely all data of the source Large to small If the source is bigger than the target, EZ Gig III copies only the data which also fits onto the target. This data is copied from the beginning of the source to the beginning of the target medium. The data which is larger than the target is not copied and is missing on the target. Generally, such a copy can only restrictedly be used because possibly necessary 22 www. apricorn. com data can be missing. by defragmentation) that all valid or necessary data is in the front part of the source medium and that this area is not larger than the target medium, a copy onto a smaller target medium can also be successfully used. Automatic troubleshooting In case of occurring errors, EZ Gig III tries to troubleshoot them the best possible. 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