1. How to Successfully Clone a Hard Drive Using EZ Gig II Vivian Nguyen 2010 May 11 Eng 393 Sec 301

2. Introduction Clones a hard drive by taking an image of it. Useful when you need to restore your system after a hard drive failure Can be done at any time of the day. –It takes about an hour or two Fairly safe as long as you know what you’re doing.

3. Materials Similar laptops/computers Apricorn’s EZ Gig II –http://www.soft32.com/download_178238.htmlhttp://www.soft32.com/download_178238.html A desktop computer – Including 2 SATA cables

4. Step 1- Remove the hard drives Remove the screws that hold the hard drive in place. Pull hard drives out. Label one to make sure which is the original and copy.

5. Step 2- Connect the hard drives to desktop via SATA cables Make sure the desktop computer is OFF while connecting hard drives. Connect to SATA cables and power cables.

6. Step 3- Turn on the desktop power

8. Step 4- While starting up, press DEL to enter CMOS Setup - Enter Standard CMOS Setup.

10. Step 5- Return to CMOS Setup and go to Advanced Setup

11. Step 6- Press F10 to save Your computer will now boot up.

12. Step 7- Open Apricorn EZ Gig II -If the program is not installed, it can be downloaded from http://www.soft32.com/download_178238.html http://www.soft32.com/download_178238.html

13. Step 8- Begin by backing up image

14. Select which disk you want to create an image of

15. Choose name and location to save to After clicking next, you can select default options, and create a comment for this file.

17. Step 9- Clone the disk

19. Step 10- Choose your original and copy drives

20. Step 11- Proceed

21. Step 12- Reboot!

24. Step 13- Remove hard drives from computer and replace

25. Troubleshooting ProblemCauseSolution The program ceases running or produces errors The files might be corrupted Recover the program (run the installer again)

26. Frequently Asked Questions Q: It is taking hours to copy the original drive to the new drive. Is there something wrong? –If your laptop has USB 1.1 ports the data transfer rate is considerably slower than a USB 2.0 port. In this case, what you are observing is normal. Bad sectors and file errors on the source drive can also cause the software to run slowly. Make sure to run error checking and defragment on the drive before cloning, if possible. Q: What storage devices does the program support for keeping backups? –Backups can be created on hard disks and other storage devices.

27. Conclusion Warranty: None found Technical support: Apricorn, Inc. –12191 Kirkham Rd. Poway, CA 92064 –800.458.5448 –http://www.apricorn.com/contact_tech.phphttp://www.apricorn.com/contact_tech.php