User Guide
THE LEADER IN PERSONAL STORAGE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................. 1
2. G
ETTING TO KNOW YOUR EZ BUS ........................................ 2
A. PACKAGE CONTENTS ................................................... 2
B. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ............................................... 3
C. REAR PANEL OF EZ BUS .............................................. 3
D. SET-UP OF THE EZ BUS .............................................. 4
3. SOFTWARE ................................................................... 5
A. BEFORE YOUR BACKUP! ................................................ 5
B. INSTALLATION OF EZ GIG II ......................................... 6
C. CONNECTING TO WINDOWS 98SE OR ME .......................... 7
D. CLONING YOUR HARD DRIVE WITH CLONE EZ ..................... 9
E. IMAGING YOUR HARD DRIVE WITH IMAGE EZ ...................... 14
F. R EFORMATTING YOUR HARD DRIVE .................................. 16
G. CRYPTAINER ............................................................. 19
H. SECOND COPY .......................................................... 20
4. DISCONNECTING ............................................................. 21
5. CONTACTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT ........................................ 22
6. RMA POLICY ............................................................... 22
7. W
ARRANTY CONDITIONS ................................................... 23
8. FAQS ........................................................................ 24
1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing your EZ Bus system.
EZ Bus is the ultimate portable hard drive and backup system. Its sleek,
slim, self-powered design makes it the perfect traveling companion so you
can backup or reinstall your data wherever you are.
Engineered for people on the go, EZ Bus comes with everything that you
need, including USB Cable, backup software and a heavy weight nylon travel
pouch to protect the drive and keep you organized while traveling.
With storage capacities up to 100GB you will have plenty of space to not
only back up your system, but for additional storage of all of your digital
photographs, emails, music and video fi les.
Regardless of whether you use a notebook or a desktop PC, EZ Bus is the
ideal hard drive to add additional capacity to your system. Simply plug EZ
Bus into a USB port and you’ve instantly increased the storage capabilities
of the computer.
The included award winning EZ Gig II Back & Disaster Recovery Software
is comprised of two separate programs complete protection for your entire
computer system.
Clone EZ creates an exact bootable clone of your hard drive creating a
disaster recovery backup of your system. In the even of a hard drive failure,
you can be back up and running in minutes.
Image EZ takes a snapshot of your entire system and compresses it into a
fi le half its original size, thus enabling multiple backups to a single drive.
This method saves hours of system rebuilding and is simple and easy to
use.
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2. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR EZ BUS
A. Package Contents
EZ Bus Carrying CaseEZ Bus Enclosure
USB Mini B to
USB Cable
Encryption and Synchronization Software
AC Adapter to
PS/2 Cable
EZ Gig II Software and
AC Adapter to
USB Cable
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B. System Requirements
To use the EZ Bus effectively, you will need the following minimum system
setup:
Hardware:
Pentium II 350MHz compatible process or higher
64MBs RAM
USB 2.0/1.1 or FireWire port
CD ROM drive
Operating Systems:
Microsoft:
Windows 98SE, Me
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Home and Professsional
Apple:
Mac OS 9.X and later (in USB 1.1 mode only)
C. Rear Panel of EZ BUS
AC Adapter
Connection
USB Mini B
Connection
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D. Set-Up of the EZ Bus
You will need to connect two cables to the EZ Bus in order to power the
product correctly.
1. For the USB Mini B to USB connector, connect the USB Mini B side to
the open USB Mini B port on the EZ Bus and then connect the USB
connector to an open USB port on your computer.
2. For the AC Adapter, you have two choices: the AC Adapter to PS/2 cable
or the AC Adapter to USB cable. Plug the AC Adapter end into the EZ
Bus and then connect the other side of the cable into the appropriate
open port on your computer.
The set up example below uses the USB Mini B to USB Cable and the AC
Adapter to USB Cable.
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3. SOFTWARE
A. Before You Backup!
With more of your work and personal life becoming digitized, backups are
essential. Backups protect and preserve precious data, music fi les, digital
photos, digital videos and other important computer documents from being
lost forever.
Follow the next few steps before backing up to help the process run
smoothly:
1. Ensure there are no fi le system errors by running
Cleanup
hard disk drive.
2. Defragment your computer’s internal hard disk drive by using
Disk Defragmenter
3. Make copies of any important fi les or data to another drive.
4. Hard drive backups work best when done on a regular basis. Take a
moment to establish a backup plan that works for you.
For example:
a. Perform full backups (using Clone EZ, exact bootable clone of
and/or
b. Perform weekly backups (using Image EZ, compressed image
(or a similar disk cleanup utility) on your computer’s internal
(or a similar disk defragment utility).
your hard drive) at the end of each month.
of your entire hard drive or partition).
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5. Once you have decided upon your plan, install EZ Gig II (p. 7) and
then go to the appropriate sections in this manual to either use
Clone EZ or Image EZ.
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B. Installation of EZ Gig II:
1. Insert EZ Gig II CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2. EZ Gig II screen (shown) will pop up.
3. Click on Install EZ Gig II.
4. Follow instructions for installation.
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C. Connecting to Windows 98SE or Me
1. Close all open applications
2. Place the EZ Gig II CD into the CD-ROM drive.
3. When the EZ Gig II screen appears, click the Browse CD button.
4. Open the Drivers Folder and then open the EZ Bus Folder
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