User manual FARSTONE DRIVECLONE 2.0

[. . . ] DriveClone TM Version 2. 0 User's Guide Copyright Notice No part of this publication may be copied, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the expressed written permission of FarStone Technology, Inc. FarStone grants you the right to use one copy of the enclosed software program ("SOFTWARE") on a single computer. If the SOFTWARE is installed on a network, or more than one user can run the SOFTWARE at the same time, you must purchase an additional license for each additional user or computer. Trademarks FarStoneTM and DriveCloneTM are trademarks of FarStone Technology, Inc. Microsoft®, Windows® and MS-DOS® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] Select Clone and then click Clone Disk (shown 24 below). Step 2 Select the Source Disk (top pane) and then the Destination Disk (bottom pane). Click Next to continue. Step 3 View the Destination Disk structure. 25 You can alter the Destination Partition size by double-clicking the Total Size field (green number) and change the size in a popup dialog box (shown below). if needed. Click Next to continue. Step 4 Check the box to erase disk signature on the Destination Disk 26 Note: In some cases, the system may fail to boot Windows 2000/XP and hang on logging stage after disk cloning or restoring from an image. This error is relevant to Windows' disk signature checking upon startup. If you check this box, DriveClone will erase disk signature and force Windows to allocate new drive letter. Please note that the drive letters on Destination Disk may be different from Source Disk if this function is used. Step 5 After confirming your selections, click Start to begin the cloning process or you can click Previous to change your settings. 27 4. 4 DriveClone Utilities DriveClone Utilities provides you with additional tools to maximize the functionality of the program. With these tools, you can: Create a DriveClone Bootable Disc Erase a rewritable CD or DVD Check validity of an image file created by DriveClone 4. 4. 1 Bootable Disc With DriveClone, you can create a bootable disc. Upon a system crash, you can use this disc to boot you computer, run DriveClone and select an image file to restore your system. To create a Bootable Disc, insert a blank CD/DVD disc into the recorder and click Utilities Bootable Disc. When the bootable disc has been created, click Finish to eject the disc. 4. 4. 2 Image Integrity Check Use this function to check if an image file created by DriveClone is restorable. Click Browse to select an image from either the hard drive, CD/DVD disc, network location or other movable storage medium, and then click Next to check the image. After the Image Integrity Check has completed, it will report the results in a dialog box. 4. 4. 3 Erase Disc You can use DriveClone Utilities to erase data from a re-writable disc, providing your drive supports the use of re-writable media (i. e. To erase a disc, insert the disc to be erased into the CD/DVD drive and select Utilities Erase Disc. Two Erase Modes: 28 Quick Erase: Using this method, discs that are erased appear to be empty but the data is not physically removed. Quick Erase will take a short time to complete and will only erase the Table of Contents (TOC) of the disc. Compared to Quick Erase, Full Erase will take a longer time to complete, but it is less likely to run into a disc error when using a full erased disc to burn again. 4. 5 Settings You can set a standard for using the USB devices, and your local network configurations. 4. 5. 1 Set USB Standard DriveClone can back up to or restore from an image file that is on a USB device. To set a defaultUSB standard for your device, click Settings (shown below), choose a USB standard and click Apply. Note If you select USB 2. 0, please make sure all your USB devices, eg. the USB storage medium, the port and the host adapter card, can support USB 2. 0. Otherwise, it will automatically revert to USB 1. 1 speed. 29 4. 5. 2 Network Settings DriveClone can back up to, or restore from a network location. To use this feature, you should first configure your network settings. To configure your network settings, click Settings from the main DriveClone interface and then click the Settings button in under Network. There are two tabs in the Network Settings window: General: The General tab is shown below. You can setup your network adaptor, IP address, Subnet mask and Default gateway from here. If you have more than one network adaptor on your system, select the adaptor to be used from the dropdown menu. [. . . ] Except as may be modified by a license addendum which accompanies this license, your rights and obligations with respect to the use of this Software are as follows: A. User License: (a) The "Software" can be used on a single computer and only by a single user at a time. (b) You can make one copy of the "Software" in machine-readable form, solely for back-up purposes, provided you reproduce FarStone's copyright proprietary legends. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the "Software" may be used on the home, laptop or other secondary computer of the principal user of the "Software", and an additional copy of the "Software" may be made to support such use. [. . . ]