Technical Support - Aegis Secure Key 3NXC Guia De Inicio Rapido

Adding a New User PIN
There are two ways to establish a User PIN: Admin-generated while in Admin Mode, and
User-generated while Secure Key is placed in User Forced Enrollment State.
ADMIN-GENERATED USER PIN
1. Enter the Admin Mode by pressing and holding
Enter the Admin PIN and press
2. Press and hold
3. Enter the PIN to be used as your User code and press .
GREEN LED will blink 3 times by itself, then will continue blinking as
glowing solidly)
4. Quickly re-enter that same PIN once more and press .
(If the PIN was successfully added,
a second or two and then will turn off, followed by the
ing that the key has returned to Admin Mode. If PIN is unacceptable or the second entry
doesn't match the first,
GREEN LEDs--Return to step 5 to retry.)
Locking the Key
To lock the key, simply 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
mode.
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
GREEN LED will quickly blink four times, then continue to blink slowly until it's plugged into a
USB port, after which will then glow solidly; If the PIN is incorrect, the
times and then glow solidly.) Upon correct PIN entry, the key will be unlocked and ready for
use. If it is not plugged into a USB port within 30 seconds, the key will return to sleep mode and
automatically lock itself.
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
https://www.apricorn.com/media/document/file/
ASK3z_Manual_configurable.pdf
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(BLUE
+ 1 until the
BLUE LED glows solidly and the
BLUE
RED LED will flash three times, followed by solid
button. When locked, the
+ 0 for five seconds
LED will glow solidly.)
LED will turn off,
BLUE
button can also be used to exit out of the Admin
button to wake the drive. (The
button. (If the PIN is accepted, the

Technical Support

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(RED LED will blink.)
GREEN LED starts blinking.
(BLUE LED will turn off and
BLUE LED resumes
GREEN LED will illuminate for
LED glowing solidly indicat-
BLUE
RED LED will glow solidly.
RED LED will glow solidly.)
RED LED will blink three
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