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EZ Upgrade
Hard Drive Upgrade Kit
After the Clone
Once the transfer is complete, you are ready to install your new hard drive.
Turn off the laptop and disconnect the EZ Upgrade's data and power cables.
Disconnect the Laptop's AC adapter, and remove the laptop battery to reduce the
risk of damage or electrical shock.
Consult the Computer's User Manual for instructions on how to remove the
original hard drive from your computer. Some laptops may have the disk drive
mounted under a cover. Other laptops may have the original drive mounted
inside a "drive caddy" to allow quick removal of the drive from the laptop
(although it might appear that the drive caddy and the EZ Upgrade drive are
not the same, once you open-up the drive caddy you will find an identical hard
drive inside). If the hard drive is mounted inside a drive caddy, carefully remove
the hard drive from the caddy. Be careful not to damage the hard drive pins or
any custom connectors. The hard drive may have a connector covering the pins.
Please take note of all connectors and their orientation.
Remove the original drive and replace it with the new one. If the laptop drive is
mounted inside a caddy, install the new drive into the caddy and then insert the
assembled caddy back into the computer. For specific instructions, please refer to
your computer's User Manual or manufactures' web site.
Boot the laptop from your new hard drive. The new hard drive should boot up as
though it was the old drive.
Using the EZ Upgrade as a external backup drive
WARNING: Formatting a Hard Drive will erase everything on the drive! Please
do not reformat the original drive until you have verified that your new drive is
working properly.
After successfully copying everything over to your new drive, the EZ Upgrade
enclosure can be used as an external USB backup drive. At this point we
recommend that you wait until you are certain that your new hard drive is
working properly. When you are certain that your system is working properly,
follow these basic steps listed below to use the EZ Upgrade as a backup drive.
1. Install the old hard drive into the EZ Upgrade universal. (Please refer to
Page#6 for hard drive installation instructions.)
2. Connect the EZ Upgrade to your system.
3. Reformat the old hard drive. (See FAQ #4 on page 25 of this manual for a link
to the Microsoft website with complete instructions for both XP and Vista.)
4. Follow the instruction in the appropriate section of this manual for Cloning or
creating a backup image.
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