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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2756 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: APRICORN MASS STORAGE
• Model: ADW-USB-KIT
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

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

Customer Reviews

Just Great
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!
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
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.