How to Successfully Clone a Hard Drive Using EZ Gig II

Vivian Nguyen

2010 May 11

Eng 393 Sec 301

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.

Materials• Similar laptops/computers

• Apricorn’s EZ Gig II– http://www.soft32.com/download_178238.html

• A desktop computer– Including 2 SATA cables

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.

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.

Step 3- Turn on the desktop power

Step 4- While starting up, press DEL to enter CMOS Setup

- Enter Standard CMOS Setup.

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

Step 6- Press F10 to save

Your computer will now boot up.

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

Step 8- Begin by backing up image

Select which disk you want to create an image of

Choose name and location to save to

• After clicking next, you can select default options, and create a comment for this file.

Step 9- Clone the disk

Step 10- Choose your original and copy drives

Step 11- Proceed

Step 12- Reboot!

Step 13- Remove hard drives from computer and replace

Troubleshooting

Problem Cause Solution

The program ceases running or produces errors

The files might be corrupted

Recover the program (run the installer again)

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.

Conclusion

• Warranty: None found

• Technical support: Apricorn, Inc.– 12191 Kirkham Rd. Poway, CA 92064– 800.458.5448– http://www.apricorn.com/contact_tech.php