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Warranty Information

Warranty

Three-Year Warranty (on hard drive):

Apricorn offers a 3-year warranty on all notebook-based products (i.e. EZ Gig Notebook Hard
Drive Upgrades, CardBus cards), and 12 months on all desktop-based products (i.e. Videoxb,
Storagexb) against defects in materials and workmanship under normal use.  The warranty
period is effective from the date of purchase either directly from Apricorn or an authorized
reseller.

Disclaimer and terms of the warranties:

THE WARRANTY BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON THE DATE OF PURCHASE AND MUST BE VERIFIED
WITH YOUR SALES RECEIPT OR INVOICE DISPLAYING THE DATE OF PRODUCT PURCHASE.

APRICORN WILL, AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE, REPAIR OR REPLACE DEFECTIVE PARTS WITH
NEW PARTS OR SERVICEABLE USED PARTS THAT ARE EQUIVALENT TO NEW IN PERFORMANCE.
ALL EXCHANGED PARTS AND PRODUCTS REPLACED UNDER THIS WARRANTY WILL BECOME
THE PROPERTY OF APRICORN.

THIS WARRANTY DOES NOT EXTEND TO ANY PRODUCT NOT PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM
APRICORN 

OR TO ANY PRODUCT THAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED OR RENDERED DEFECTIVE

: 1. AS

A RESULT OF ACCIDENT, MISUSE, NEGLECT, ABUSE 

OR FAILURE AND/OR INABILITY TO FOLLOW

THE WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED IN THIS INSTRUCTION GUIDE

; 2. BY THE USE OF PARTS

NOT MANUFACTURED OR SOLD BY APRICORN; 3. BY MODIFICATION OF THE PRODUCT; OR 4. AS
A RESULT OF SERVICE, ALTERATION OR REPAIR BY ANYONE OTHER THAN APRICORN AND SHALL
BE VOID.  THIS WARRANTY DOES NOT COVER NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR.

NO OTHER WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MER-
CHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, HAS BEEN OR WILL BE MADE BY OR
ON BEHALF OF APRICORN OR BY OPERATION OF LAW WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT OR ITS
INSTALLATION, USE, OPERATION, REPLACEMENT OR REPAIR.

APRICORN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE BY VIRTUE OF THIS WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE 

INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF DATA

 RESULT-

ING FROM THE USE OR OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT, WHETHER OR NOT APRICORN WAS
APPRISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Summary of Contents for EZ Gig

Page 1: ...WARRANTY DOES NOT EXTEND TO ANY PRODUCT NOT PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM APRICORN OR TO ANY PRODUCT THAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED OR RENDERED DEFECTIVE 1 AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT MISUSE NEGLECT ABUSE OR FAILURE AND OR INABILITY TO FOLLOW THE WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED IN THIS INSTRUCTION GUIDE 2 BY THE USE OF PARTS NOT MANUFACTURED OR SOLD BY APRICORN 3 BY MODIFICATION OF THE PRODUCT OR 4 AS A RESULT OF SERV...

Page 2: ...duction 1 Contents List 1 Before using EZ GIG 2 Chapter 1 Notebook EZ GIG Installation 3 4 Chapter 2 External Hard Drive Storage 5 Chapter 3 Desktop EZ GIG Installation 6 Appendix A EZ GIG Installation with out access to 2 HDD and floppy drive 7 Appendix B Utilities Menu 8 Appendix C Technical Support 9 RMA 10 ...

Page 3: ...s Windows 95 FAT16 Windows 95 OSR2 FAT16 FAT32 Windows 98 FAT16 FAT32 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows NT FAT16 Dual Boot FAT16 w 64 clusters NTFS OS 2 FAT16 FAT16 Dual Boot HPFS Windows 3 x and all versions of DOS Package Contents EZ GIG Data Transfer Solution EZ GIG Data Transfer Utility Hard Drive PC Card Cable PC Card Cable Translation Board optional Translation Board optional EZ GIG Software E...

Page 4: ...test BIOS update If an update is needed do this before using EZ GIG It is recommended that the EZ GIG software only be run while your notebook computer is running on AC power adapter Battery power may run out during file transfer Safety Instructions Observe proper ESD Electo Static Discharge handling techniques at all times Keep hard drive in the antistatic bag until you are ready to install it Do...

Page 5: ...e that it is pushed in all the way See figure 1 4 Connect the new hard drive to the cable or translation board For bare hard drives the keyed notch on the hard drive connector should correspond with the keyed notch on the black cable figure 2 Hard drives with proprietary connec tors require attachment via the transla tion board 5 Insert the bootable diskette labeled EZ GIG Data Transfer Utility in...

Page 6: ...for Utilities Menu 8 Your screen will display the following When you see the spinning character begin to move the transfer is under way Press CTRL Q to cancel process Copying partition 1 of 1 gathering information 1 9 When the data transfer is complete the following will be displayed on your screen See figure 4 Remove the floppy diskette and turn off your notebook Elapsed time hr min sec Data has ...

Page 7: ...ew drive and choose Format Windows 98 98SE ME 1 Turn notebooks power OFF 2 Insert the EZ GIG PC Card with cable attached into an available PCMCIA slot Make sure that it is pushed in all the way 3 Power up the system Windows should recognize the insertions and re spond with a New Hardware window Click Next 4 Choose Search for Best Driver and click Next 5 Insert the EZ GIG software diskette and clic...

Page 8: ...o the utilities menu your source drive is your primary master and your destination drive is your secondary master If your new hard drive is being installed in a system with more than two hard drives EZ GIG will identify the Primary Master as the Source Drive and the new bare drive as the Destination Drive SeeAppendix B for switching the source and destination drive 3 You are now ready to start the...

Page 9: ... will prompt you with the message Press any key to continue when finished Remove floppy diskette and turn off your computer 6 Remove the floppy drive from the PCMCIA slot 7 Connect the old hard drive to the cable For bare hard drives the keyed notch on the hard drive connector should correspond with the keyed notch on the cable See figure 2 in the manual on page 3 Insert the EZ GIG PC Card Cable i...

Page 10: ...lows you to toggle between enabling and disabling this feature Formatting Extra Space All extra space is automatically formatted for use as data partitions Ctrl E allows you to toggle between enabling and disabling this feature Big Drive Translation Hard Drives larger than 5GB need a special type of cylinder head sector translation to work properly in the system This capability lets you decide whi...

Page 11: ...our system locks right after turning the power on or when you are in the CMOS you have a cylinder limitation The drive overlay software will create a new layer of software that will translate to accommodate any BIOS limitations EZ DRIVE software from Micro House has been included in this package for your convenience Below is the instruction set for creating and installing the drive overlay fix fro...

Page 12: ...e your EZ GIG product Apricorn requires that you perform the following steps In order to return or replace your EZ GIG product Apricorn must issue an RMA return merchandise authorization tracking number Simply call Apricorn s Technical Support department with Apricorn s part and a de scription of the problem you re experiencing If the Apricorn representative finds cause for a return they will issu...

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