Apricorn Xtreme Upgrade User manual
User’s Guide
HIGH PERFORMANCE NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE UPGRADE KIT
Attention:
If your Xtreme Upgrade shipped with a previous
version of EZ Gig II, you can download the new
EZ Gig III from Apricorn’s website at:
http://www.apricorn.com/ezgig
Review the most current Xtreme Upgrade FAQ’s
at: http://www.apricorn.com/support.php
Xtreme Upgrade
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting to know your Xtreme Upgrade 4
Introduction 4
The Package Contains 4
System Requirements 5
Connecting your Xtreme Upgrade 6
Hard Drive Installation 6
For SATAhard drives: 6
For PATA/IDE hard drives: 7
Before Running the Software 8
Before running EZ Gig III we recommend 8
EZ Gig III instructions for Windows 7 & Vista 9
Changing the default “Power Options” 9
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot) 10
To start EZ Gig III directly from the CD-ROM 10
Connecting Your Hard Drive 11
EZ Gig III Start Up Options 11
Creating a Bootable EZ Gig III CD 12
Cloning your hard drive with EZ Gig III 13
Selecting the Source Drive 14
Selecting the Destination Drive 15
Speed Test 15
Drive Verication 16
Advanced Options 17
Verify Copy 17
Copy Free Areas 17
SmartCopy 17
Media Direct (Dell) 17
More Advanced Options 18
FastCopy 18
SafeRescue 18
CachedMemory 18
SharedMemory 18
Animation 18
HotCopy / LiveImage 19
Avoid exclusive read access 19
Partitions 20
Resizing your partitions manually 21
Start Clone 22
Interupting the Cloning Process 23
Aborting the Cloning Process 23
Interupting the Verication process 23
Congratulations your Clone is Complete 24
SuperDuper! Backup Software for Mac 25
After the Clone 26
Using the Xtreme Upgrade as a external backup drive 26
Device Removal (Windows) 27
Xtreme Upgrade FAQs 28
EZ Gig III FAQs 31
Load errors 31
Error #5002 and ‘Disk error’ 31
Keyboard and mouse 31
General problems 32
Slowed down system 32
Read, write and verication errors 32
IDE/ATA/SATA 32
Hard disk not recognized 32
IDE controller not found 33
Source & Destination Size Differences 33
Equal Size 33
Small to large 33
Large to small 34
Automatic troubleshooting 34
Intensive reading/writing 34
Read errors 34
Write errors 34
Verication errors 35
Contacting Technical Support 36
RMA Policy 36
Warranty Conditions 37
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Getting to know your Xtreme Upgrade
Introduction
Want to increase your notebook’s
performance? Apricorn’s Xtreme
Upgrade is a complete hardware and
software solution that makes upgrading
notebook hard drives fast and easy. This
kit includes everything you will need to
applications and the operating system
from the hard drive in your notebook
to a new SATA hard drive whether
you have a Windows or Mac operating
system.
Apricorn’s 7200 RPM Xtreme Drive is the fastest available hard drive for notebook
computers. Xtreme Drives have a 70% faster spindle speed and a 400% larger
cache over 4200 RPM drives. This drive can improve overall system performance
backup solution.
The Package Contains
Xtreme Upgrade Aluminum Enclosure for SATA & PATA/IDE Hard Drives
High Performance 2.5 inch 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
USB Cable
AC Adapter
Upgrade Suite CD
• Apricorn EZ Gig III
• 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
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 Xtreme 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.
1
2
4
SATA
PATA
SATA
PATA
3
USB
Mini
Port Power
Port
Connecting your Xtreme 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 Xtreme Upgrade
and then connect the other side of the cable into an open USB port
on your computer. For additional power use the AC power adapter.
(diagram 4)
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 identied 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 III 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 III 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 III 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 III 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 III 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 III 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 III 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 III software.
Upgrade Suite (CD-ROM boot)
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