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| Universal HDD Adapter USB To 2.5IN & 3.5IN Sata & Pata Hdd | 
 enlarge | Brand: APRICORN MASS STORAGE
Category: CE
List Price: $37.99
Buy New: $28.70
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2466
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.9 x 2.5
MPN: ADW-USB-KIT
Model: ADW-USB-KIT
UPC: 708326911733
EAN: 0708326911733
ASIN: B000QY9KIS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box contents - Drivewire IDE/PATA/SATA to USB Adapter, USB 2.0 cable, AC power adapter and Apricorn's Upgrade Suite CD with EZ Gig II for Windows and ShirtPocket SuperDuper! for Mac | | • | High Quality UL Listed Power Adapter - Guaranteed to safely provide all the power you need | | • | Transfer everything in a few easy steps - Operating System, Data, E-mail, Settings and Applications | | • | Up to 480 Mbps USB 2.0 to Backup data in less time | | • | Interface - SATA or 2.5 IDE/PATA (40Pin) or 3.5 IDE/PATA (44Pin) to USB 2.0 |
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Product Description
Drivewire is the ideal solution for transferring the data from a desktop or notebook PC to a new hard drive in a few easy steps. It makes what can otherwise be a daunting and tricky process, painless and easy. Drivewire is bundled with Apricorn's Upgrade Suite, which features Apricorn's EZ Gig II cloning software for Windows and ShirtPocket's SuperDuper! for Mac. When used together, Drivewire makes it easy to transfer your OS, data, applications, documents, address books, e-mail, settings and preferences from the old drive to a new drive. The Upgrade Suite bootable CD makes an exact clone of the old drive onto a new drive. This unique adapter provides a SATA connector for the new style drives as well as 44 pin connector for a 2.5" Notebook IDE/PATA Hard Drive and 40 pin connector for a standard 3.5" IDE/PATA hard drive, allowing you to connect a hard drive to any desktop or notebook computer with a USB 2.0 port. Drivewire is guaranteed to safely provide all the power you need and it's compatible with all of today's 2.5", 3.5" IDE/PATA or SATA hard drives. System Requirements - CD-ROM Drive, 128MB RAM, Pentium CPU II, available USB port, Windows Vista Home, Ultimate & Business, Windows XP Home and Professional SP2, Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Apple G3 or later, Mac OS 9.2 or later & Mac OS X 10.2 or later
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Just Great December 1, 2008
The adapter and the accompanying 'EZ-Gig' software,worked better than advertized. The HDD in my laptop crashed,so I cloned the HDD in my desktop. Took less than 2 hours,following enclosed instructions, for 105 gig. Installed new 120 gig HDD into laptop,updated the drivers and now my laptop is an exact clone of desk top. Simple and easy instructions to follow. The only problem you may encounter is if you can't clone the HDD you are replacing, in that case you may have some driver issues to work with
Apricorn HDD USB Adapter is GREAT! October 10, 2008
1. Amazon's final price w/ shipping is darn competitive!
2. Product arrived sooner than the 5 - 7 days stated.
3. Fits all three HDD interfaces type -- very handy indeed.
4. Comes with cloning software, in case you do not have Ghost available.
Amazon & Apricorn each have my fullest confidence.
 Copied One Killed the Other October 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product read a 3.5" HD that I'd had in an enclosure. But when I connected a smaller laptop HD, it was possible to get the pins on only one side and it fried my drive. There are cautions about ensuring that you connect the power correctly, which I did. Looking from above, it looked as if the connector was on correctly. It was in fact only on one set of pins, which meant the wrong holes on the wrong connectors. The HD is now dead. No need to say that that is extremely upsetting. I give it a two only because it can/ does read the 3.5 correctly.
OK to try, but keep your expectations low August 31, 2008
Pros:
-Worked for my SATA HDD.
-The bundled software looks promising...offers a seemingly simple HDD imaging program and HDD utility.
-Company (and product?) from USA (if you care about that sort of thing).
Cons:
-Did not work for my IDEs. Tried two different IDE HDDs on three different PCs. No Luck.
-Tech Support only open 8-5 M-F which is inconvenient for me.
Summary:
This product did not work for me. Would recommend you buy it if you live close to a store that carries it and will allow you to return if it doesn't work.
 USELESS DEVICE WITH RANDOM DISCONNECTS August 22, 2008
I really wanted this Apricorn Adapter to work, what could be nicer than having SATA and PATA choices at any given time. But as soon as I hooked my SATA drive to my USB on the back of the computer and I tried to do a Back-Up the drive started disconnecting in the middle of the Back-Up. The thing is, I wasn't watching this process all the time so I fear some of the data may have been corrupted. To make matters worse, I can not play Movies from the same external drive, the disk gets ejected constantly in the middle of playback, basically, the Apricorn adapter is useless. It is too late for me to get my money back but maybe I can save someone else from making the same mistake I did.
(Before someone from Apricorn comes here to blame me for not knowing how to use the device properly, I want everyone to know I am computer savvy and I followed their instruction faithfully. Even if some people have had no problems it does not mean their device works all the time. If you do a search on the Internet for this device you will find others with similar stories. I think it is possible they manufactured a bunch of defective units and dumped them in the market rather than recall them. They should have an official recall advertised on their website.)
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