APRICORN EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL Hard Drive Upgrade Kit

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Very simplistic to set up and install. Had a SG 5400rpm 60GB in a HP hp nc6400 switched out with the hitachi 7200rpm 300GB. Ideal clone in only 20 minutes total without having any problems. Cable is a little short, but tends to make for a speedy and easy setup when cloning. Using old tough drive to store Itunes from my desktop with the good case it comes with.

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Incredibly easy installation and usage of the solution. None, other than I really should have purchased a bigger hard drive to use with this item. I want they produced this item for desktop computers as properly.

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Cloned my original Presario V2000 40gb drive to a WD 160gb. Took 13 hours, but all went smoothly as advertised. Really great product. I'm no specialist, but this was simple!My original drive is snuggled in the interface enclosure that comes with this item. It'll be an external drive now. Terrific. (I sort of like the blue.) The blister pack was a bear to open. Practically went for the blowtorch. Why do firms package like this?! When mounting a drive to the enclosure, be positive to push the drive forward so that you no longer see the pins. Mine was challenging to push so I left it only component way pushed in. Consequently, it wasn't connected on my initial try. A stronger push seated it appropriately and I was on my way!

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The metal case is properly made, and takes each PATA and SATA drives. The package as it comes, devoid of a Y-cable or an AC adapter, is seriously underpowered. According to their technical help it is underpowered for 7200 RPM drives, but nowhere do they warn you of this ahead of you get. It took me a month of weekend attempts to migrate off an older HDD prior to I figured out the challenge and employed a Y-cable I had from yet another USB device.It also overheats with a substantial-capacity, rapid drive. I had to open the case and leave the drive exposed.Their application is barely capable, and couldn't clone to a larger drive using either the alternative to manually resize the partitions, or to automatically resize proportionally. In each circumstances I was left with an unbootable drive. I was only capable to clone to a drive that was the similar size. ThinkPad users ought to be conscious that you can't clone to an external drive. You must place the new drive in the ThinkPad, and your old drive in the enclosure, plus turn off some ThinkPad safety capabilities prior to you can clone the drive.General a clunky course of action with a mediocre product and lousy software. Shop elsewhere.

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It is not usually that a solution is wildly much better than I anticipated, but this one is. the drive case is a quite sturdy function of art. It can deal with either an IDE or SATA drive in a extremely clever way. Application worked just fine to transfer method on my laptop's 120 gig disk to a new 320 from newegg. no cons. this item is really good. I had a dual boot setup on the original drive with Linux in one partition and XP in the other - plus the swap partition. transfer worked completely though I did need to edit the Grub menu to fix which program was default - little challenge indeed.

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Functions with both IDE and SATA Drives. The utilities software CD that comes with the enclosure has come in really handy. Duplicates drives and backups sections of drives among other fuctions. Customer help isn't incredibly responsive. The bootable application CD has been very beneficial in recovering drives. I've had luck copying drives that can't be accessed generally. Enclosure has worked as anticipated. Utilities can be copied to challenging drive or boot the CD and utilized standalone. The only difficulty I've had is that the CD which worked at one particular time in my laptop, stopped working. I E-mailed the manufacturer asking if I could get a replacement and they didn't even bother to respond.

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The computer software is quite handy, and straightforward to use for an sophisticated user. It has the 'basic' / 'default' wizzard sort of strategy for newer customers. I have had fantastic benefits undertaking backups of my systems and then saving a copy of the entire setup on a drive (for emergency replacement). BTW, a leading drive manufacturer utilizes a _quite_equivalent version of this Uncomplicated G_ (a totally free download on the web-site (requires 'thier' drive be on the machine) to use the application. Uncomplicated G_ is not proprietary as to drive form. I have had to low-level format some drives soon after using the software program on them. This was due to windows Vista not able to 'delete' a partition. This can also be fixed with the Simple G_ as I discovered utilizing the 'install' a drive selection. Vista would not recognize the drive. I had this challenge with an additional drive as well. I contacted Apricorn assistance> they responded in about 24hours (wow)- and sent me a cable that created two connections (a y cable). However, I located that Vista is less tolerant of energy to usb devices. So, I got a powered hub (from NewEgg). That helped- but what worked best and flawlessly is a quite brief mini usb-usbA Ƒ') with a brief cable, it connects *everytime* I let Apricorn know about this approach(hopefully ad to faq). I bought yet another 1 from NewEgg so now I have two of them. Apricorn has excellent service, and the devices are quite excellent. I use them to backup the several computer's in my network, and for customer backups as properly. It is *very* nicely created and created from materials of the highest excellent I have seen in this form of device. I wondered about the energy connection (not employed), and Apricorn recomended it is not required. Device works fine with no external energy other than usb connection.

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It's a breeze if you know what you're performing. Here'S MY STORY (and I under no circumstances write these critiques, but Apricorn has been unfairly reviewed by some on this item and deserves my 5 minutes.)I bought this product with a 320 Seagate 7200 SATA drive. Installed the drive in the enclosure ƕ minutes... hey, the screws are little.) Installed the software. Started the cloning method. It located some negative sectors in my new drive, but I just told it to ignore all and maintain going. The cloning course of action ran all evening. I woke up to it becoming only 25% carried out... right after some thing like 12 hours. I known as Seagate about sectors. I called Apricorn about approach. I Learned from one get in touch with - devoid of AC power (sold separately) enclosure can only run 5400 and beneath. I swapped drives due to the fact my 60GB is a 5400 exactly where my 320 is a 7200. Booted from CD-ROM with their CD running. Cloned from enclosure with my original drive, to my laptop, with my new drive. Under 1 HOUR CLONE - 55GBs! The other reviews that slammed this device... I practically didn't buy it. I'm glad I did. Let's be actual, you're obtaining the application, not the enclosure. Is it worth it? Totally! Let's see - new 320GB drive (๛) - enclosure and computer software (ห.79 right after rebate) - shipping and handling (ů.59) - cloned and up and running under 1 hour (PRICELESS!)You make the decision.

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Flexible with dual interface - ATA and SATA. Tool-less case. Effortless to use application. Quite straightforward and simple. A bit far more costly than other external enclosures out there. The factor that sold me on this was the dual interface. I have an older laptop ࿜gb ATA-6 drive) and a newer laptop 鲸gb SATA drive) and this was the perfect solution to help in upgrading both laptops. Definitely the higher expense has one thing to do with the incorporated computer software. If you currently have Acronis True Image, then you can in all probability go for a cheaper enclosure and get comparable final results. Retain in thoughts that you need to have to leave the installation CD in the drive after cloning the challenging drive and swapping out the new drive for the old one particular. The software needs to complete a step ahead of booting into your operating system and it needs the CD in the CD-ROM drive to do that.Bottom line - it's easy and it performs.

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Really simple to upgrade. The old drive can be reused as a transportable USB drive. No challenges with drive letter modify when you replace your drive using this kit. My older 40 GB drive had two partions of 30GB and 10 GB. The computer software keeps the same ratio on the new drive. So on my new 80 GB drive, I had to make two partitions of 60GB and 20GB. I wanted to maintain it 70ቦ.

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Worked beautifully for cloning my laptop hd to a new wd scorpio blue 500gb drive. Basic, simple design and procedures. Really like that the enclosure is self-powered from the USB cable. Very suggested and would use again the subsequent time I will need to clone and replace a hard drive. The provided software seems to work best when you set up it to Vista and then let the really hard drive clone "AS IS" through the custom menu. I kept freezing up trying to run the clone via a boot from the CD but this may well be gear and operating technique related. Installed to Vista and cloned "AS IS" and approach went perfectly.

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Worked like a charm. Highly quick.. Cloned a 40 Gb Hitachi in about 30 minutes. Utilized the software installed in windows. Had a little difficulty acquiring Samsung 160 GB PATA drive to seat totally into connector. I did not fault cloning gear for this. Nevertheless five eggs.. The only way to to replace hard drives..Study instructions.. Software program has alot of othe utilizes..Commets of review that had to trasfer drive more than evening. You must of not had drive fully seated into socket.. Factors moved along extremely gradually and showed drive errors at very first till I got drive to fully seat into connector. I began clone course of action from starting. Everything fine...

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It worked with my old IBM ThinkPad T43 and Windows XP. At that time it seemed like a lifesaver. I had to dig to locate out that with Lenovo's the source drive has to go in the enclosure and the location drive inside the laptop, but after I got that it worked fine. It does not operate with my existing Lenovo ThinkPad T500 and Windows 7. Really frustrating.The EZ Gig III software program (I downloaded the most up-to-date) was not able to adequately study from my old HDD (while mounted in the enclosure). There were numerous read errors reported and ultimately it hung. Attempted it multiple occasions, following the instructions on progressively disabling attributes in the application. Large pain, and ultimately completely fruitless. If you have Windows 7 and want to upgrade your drive, and your new drive is at least as massive as the old one particular, you can do it employing builtin Win7 utilities and a garden range external USB drive or network drive or DVD's. Here's how I did itɅ) Use Windows 7 Backup to make disk image of T500, on external USB HDDtwo) Use Windows 7 Backup to generate Emergency Restore Disc on a blank CDthree) Take away old HDD from T500, set up new Vertex 2 SSD4) Boot from Emergency Restore Discfive) Use Windows 7 Backup to restore from image to new Vertex 2 SSD6) Disconnect USB drive, remove CD, boot a couple of occasions till anything operates.Note: I mention the name of my drive right here... but it didn't fit into my machine until I utilised a dremel to cut away portion of the aluminum box of the Vertex 2. (Lenovo apparently has a slightly non-typical geometry, just to make life intriguing.)Very good luck.

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Incredibly high excellent case with fantastic computer software. Great for cloning a tough drive and then installing the new drive in laptop. My laptop disk was failing. Installed software and it cloned old drive to new bigger drive in a single operation. Allowed me to skip to unreadable sectors and continue with copy operation. New cloned drive booted very first time and Win XP recognized the total size of the new drive. Quality of the case and the computer software was nicely worth the extra expense compared to less costly cases. None

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Too easy!!!! Excellent item even if you know what you are carrying out. If you can read at all you can replace a laptop tough drive in just a couple of basic actions. I replaced a 80g sata hd in an Acer laptop that was partitioned at 40g and 40g with a 320g. The software will either copy exactly, in proportion to size, or you can customize the size you want your partitions. It only took about five minutes to set it up, and it was carried out in about an hour.

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Computer software. There are a lot of enclosures out there. What the software package does (it's a stripped down version of, if I recall Acronis' image plan) is make you a total copy of your disk. Bootable. Identical. No stupid archive files or "recovery programs" to load. IT'S JUST A COPY. That is why this is a great obtain. (For what it is worth I can't figure out how to do this with the total software.)The enclosure itself is a fantastic anondised aluminum box accepting SATA or ATA drives of two.5". They don't SAY this, but in all reality, weird stuff is going to come about, which you do not want, if you don't also separately get an auxiliary power adapter for the USB recent. Don't bother "gambling" that your disk won't draw as well considerably present. You will nearly undoubtedly advantage from possessing the power supply. You can also use the brilliant imaging computer software anyplace else - on a 3.five" disk, say? On a diverse personal computer. Frankly, you're as significantly shopping for the software package as the great enclosure. Just choose up that power adapter and your backup/duplication problems are background!

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Reliable, uncomplicated to use enclosure from which you can promptly modify out disks. Enclosure has fantastic transfer speeds and the anodized metal is eye-catching. It has also survived various months in my backpack devoid of a scratch so it would seem to be robust as effectively. If you wish to have the enclosure anyplace other than right subsequent to the computer system you're connecting it to, then the brief cable is a con. On the other hand, less cable implies less cable management. The included computer software operates rather properly and reasonably promptly. It is by far some of the far better transfer software program I've encountered each for ease of use and excellent.

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Turn-important disk upgrade, dome on a Thinkpad SL500. Getting completed a lot of these laptop upgrades in the past - the difficult way - I thought I was silly to invest funds on a dumbed-down "kit" like this. Very best dollars I have spent on utility hardware in years. Particularly basic to use, directions are really clear. Why screw about with something when you don't have to? Not a lot to write here; operates exactly as advertised.....you likely need a small tech information to use this kit. For instance, my wife could not do it........but she can't deal with multiple tabs in Firefox either.

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hefty duty, sturdy, nice texture feeling to it, darker than in the images, good color, looks a lot nicer than in the pics, they dont do it justice. i only purchased this for the enclosure element since i believed it looked nice. i'm incredibly content with it, took a whopping 10 seconds to get my HDD in there. also fantastic that it performs with each IDE and SATA drives. popped it in, plugged it in, formatted the HDD and fantastic to go. it's hefty for an external enclosure, and a little major/thick. won't operate with out some extra energy, the single USB it comes with isn't sufficient. you'll want to use one of those USB y-cables that split off for added energy. that or get a regular 5V DC power supply. i had 1 from yet another enclosure. small pricey, but thats mainly because it comes with software package for the cloning too. so you're paying for two items in a way.

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Worked like a charm. I created a clone of my laptop's old difficult drive into a new Seagate model, and the software worked excellent. The metal case is also a plus, as it allows you to continue to use your old hdd as an external tricky drive. Neither my new difficult drive or the old one particular was specifically snug in the offered case, but this is a pretty smaller challenge. The software utility is good since it also has selections for making back-up pictures or recovering files.

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Extremely high construct top quality, specially for the value! Tool-much less. The software program was incompatible with Windows 7 x64, and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a link from the Apricorn folks to download a later version. That version DID operate, on the other hand, and worked wonderfully. I would prefer a full-sized USB port on the enclosure, as the mini ones often really feel like they're going to break--but that's just me.

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Newegg is usually fast on shipping and a wonderful shop. The included computer software could be helpful with an additional brand of enclosure? The unit stops responding just before the backup completes and returns create errors. If I unplug the drive it says backup completed effectively--which it naturally didn't. The enclosure would possibly be very best utilized as a shim to level a table or even drink coaster. I'll attempt to make a clone with the supply drive in the Apricorn enclosure and the destination in the notebook like another user did and see if that works. Otherwise, it's quite useless for it's made purpose and a big fat waste of time.

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It can home either a PATA or SATA drive. Item does specifically what it says it will. Properly constructed & compact. None! EZ Upgrade is exactly that! I used it to upgrade my laptop drive from 60 GB to 120 GB. All I had to do was set up the new drive in the Apricorn enclosure, hook up the USB cable, boot into the Upgrade Suite software on CD, and observe screen prompts. Uncomplicated! It took the computer software about 2 hours to clone my old drive. Now my new drive has twice the space on every partition and Windows is satisfied once again! The enclosure now houses my old drive & functions are my external drive! Highly recommended!!

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Purchased this for a Christmas gift for my wife. She has a Gateway laptop that had a 100G HD in it. She was down to only 8G left on it, had to do one thing. Discovered this on Neweggs and decided to give it a try. Funny my deal came with the enclosure AND a 320G 2.5 ( 7200 )HD, seems like I got a greater deal at the time. Installed the application, plugged in the new HD enclosure with the 320G HD inside, clicked on clone and followed the easy measures. Right after about an hour an a half it was accomplished. Took my wifes old HD out and installed the new 320G in her laptop. I place her old 100G in the enclosure and went into Control Panel / Admin tools / disk management and did a format of her old drive and collapsed her partitions. Now its a external total 100G drive that she can place all her motion pictures and music on. It seriously was so EZ Kinda got worried at first. It did a reboot on her laptop but it would not boot up? Took her battery out and reinstalled it. That did appear to function, her laptop booted up once again. Why? I dunknow. This kit with a 320G 7200rpm sata two.five HD and I added 4 GB of RAM to her laptop from 2GB of RAM. Such a inexpensive way to upgrade. Saved me ALOT of cash from having to go out and Get her a new laptop.

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works fantastic corporation doesnt honor rebate