Unlocking The Key; Adding A New User Pin; Formatting For Mac Os - Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3.0 Quick Start Manual

Locking the Key
To lock the key, press the
If data is still being written to the Secure Key, it will wait for this operation to be completed before the locking
operation takes place. The
Note: The Aegis Secure Key will not be recognized by any operating system in its locked state.

Unlocking the Key

1. Beginning in standby mode, press the
2. Enter either an Admin PIN or User PIN and press the
(If the PIN is accepted, the
it's plugged into a USB port, after which will then glow solidly. If it is not plugged into a USB port within
30 seconds of unlocking, the key will return to sleep mode and automatically lock itself.
LED indicates incorrect PIN entry.)

Adding a New User PIN

1. Beginning in standby mode, press the
2. Enter the Admin Mode by pressing and holding
3. Enter the Admin PIN and press
4. Press and hold
5. Enter the PIN to be used as your User code and press
will blink 3 times by itself, then will continue blinking as
6. Quickly re-enter that same PIN once more and press
(If the PIN was successfully added,
or two and then will turn off, followed by the
returned to Admin Mode. If PIN is unacceptable or the second entry doesn't match the first,
LED will flash three times, followed by solid

Formatting For Mac OS

The Aegis Secure Key comes preformatted in NTFS for Windows ® and is ready for use. For the Mac
OS, you must first reformat the drive to a Mac compatible file system.
Once drive is unlocked and inserted into a USB port, open the
Mac Disk Utility from Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilities and perform the following:
1. Select the Aegis Secure Key from the list of drives and volumes.
2. Click the 'Erase' tab.
3. Enter a name for the drive. The default name is Untitled. The drive's name will eventually appear
on the desktop.
4. Select a volume format to use. The Volume Format dropdown menu lists the available drive
formats that the Mac supports. The recommended format type is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled).'
5. Click the 'Erase' button. Disk Utility will unmount the volume from the desktop, erase it, and then
remount it on the desktop.
Complete formatting instructions can be found online at
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button. When locked, the
button can also be used to exit out of the Admin mode.
button to wake the drive. (The
GREEN
LED will quickly blink four times, then continue to blink slowly until
(BLUE
+ 1 until the BLUE LED glows solidly and the
BLUE
RED LED will glow solidly.
button.
button to wake the drive. (The
+ 0 for five seconds
LED will glow solidly.)
.
(BLUE
BLUE
.
LED will turn off,
BLUE
LED glowing solidly indicating that the key has
BLUE
/ Blinking
RED LED will glow solidly.)
RED LED will glow solidly.)
(RED LED will blink.)
GREEN LED starts blinking.
LED will turn off and
LED resumes glowing solidly)
GREEN LED will illuminate for a second
GREEN
LEDs--Return to step 5 to retry.)
IMPORTANT
BACK UP COPIES OF
IMPORTANT DATA
TO AT LEAST TWO
SECURE LOCATIONS.
(Rev 2.0) 01/08/2019
RED
blinking
GREEN
LED
RED