Technical Support - Apricorn Aegis Padlock SSD Guía De Referencia Rápida

Locking the Drive
To lock the drive, press the
If data is still being written to the drive, the Padlock SSD will wait until all data has been written
to the drive and then it will lock automatically.
Note: The Aegis Padlock SSD will not be recognized by the operating system in its standby state.
Unlocking the Drive
To unlock the drive, enter either a User PIN or Admin PIN and press the
Creating a new User PIN
1. Enter the Admin Mode (
2. Press and hold
3. Enter a User PIN and press
flashes GREEN
4. Re-enter the new User PIN and press
then solid BLUE, the User PIN was successfully added.
CREATING FORCED ENROLLMENT STATE ALLOWING USER TO GENERATE USER PIN
Note: This can only be done if there isn't already a User PIN established on the key using the method above.
1. Enter the Admin Mode by holding
the button. The BLUE
2. Press 0 + 1 and the
3. Press the button to return the key to its locked state. The key is now in User Forced Enrollment State, allow-
ing a User to establish his own User PIN.
USER-GENERATED USER PIN IN FORCED ENROLLMENT STATE
1. Press and ensure that the
2. Press + 1 and ensure that the
the new User PIN and press the
joined by the BLUE
3. Within 30 seconds, enter that same User PIN once more, and press the
LED will glow solidly for a few seconds, then the drive will return to its locked state, indicated by the
LED glowing solidly. The key's data can now be accessed using either the User PIN or the Admin PIN.
Formatting For Mac OS
The Aegis Padlock SSD comes preformatted in NTFS for Windows ® . 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 Padlock SSD 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.
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button.
+ 0 for five seconds, then enter Admin PIN and press
+ 1 until the LED turns to Solid
(a minimum of 7 digits and a maximum of 16 digits). The LED
three times, then returns to Solid
+ 0 for five seconds; With
LED will glow solidly.
GREEN LED will blink three times, then will be replaced by
BLUE and the
BLUE LED continues glowing solidly while the
button. The
LED glowing solidly.
BLUE and Blinking GREEN.
BLUE and Blinking GREEN.
. If the LED stays solid
RED
GREEN LEDs are glowing solidly.
GREEN LED will blink three times by itself and then will be

Technical Support

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button.
GREEN for two seconds and
LED blinking, enter the Admin PIN and press
BLUE LED glowing solidly.
GREEN
button again. This time, the
(Rev 4) July 2019
).
LED blinks. Enter
GREEN
RED