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Of note, this is not a pretty setup if you are considering long term use of an external drive. I transferred 70 gigs of data within minutes - not hours.
I was running XP on the desktop and needed a quick way to get my data off of the hard drives. When the motherboard of my Dell desktop PC failed, my RAID 1 twin hard drives were useless for recovering data without removing them from the PC.
Just open windows explorer and move files. After weighing all of my options, I picked up a great Lenovo laptop for cheap (see my other reviews) and this fantastic connection kit.All I needed to do after setting up the laptop was to remove one of the drives from my PC, hook it up to the SATA connections provided with this kit and then plug it into a USB port on my laptop.
No drivers, no tweaks, no tricks. The small price for this kit was nothing compared to the benefits of retrieving my data so effortlessly.Plus, in the kit, there are connectors for both laptop drives and desktop drives (ATA and Serial ATA/SATA) plus all of the cables to get the job done.
However, it is an excellent tool for getting data from a lone drive to any computer via USB.
I've used it for the past two months, works well so far. All my IDE hard disks work with it. Would be better if it has a power switch to turn on/off.
My computer hard drive was going bad and I knew I had to get it out of my computer and install a new one. I was able to download most of the important stuff off of the old hard drive and put it on the new hard drive without any problem.
just make sure you got the right jumper setting (works perfect on master) tested on ide cdrom/dvdrom/hardrives. i gave this product 4 stars coz i hav'nt tried it on sata drives. but this product works great on ide's. it should work with sata. great for data recovery jobs.
Performs as advertised. I simply cannot recommend this alternative enough. Was recommended to try to pop open the enclosure and connect the HD directly to the computer, in case the failure is actually the bus and not the HD.
Maxtor One-touch III hard drive failed to be recognized by my computers, suddenly and without warning. I rapidly copied all the critical data off the external HD. Absolutely saved me thousands of dollars.
Received this delivery, opened the enclosure, connected the power cable and the IDE-USB connectors, and within seconds my HD then appeared on my desktop. 15GB of family pictures were on this NAS device, and hadn't been backed up for a few months. Spoke to 4 separate drive recovery companies, and all said they'd charge between $750-3000 (on average) to "guarantee" recovery of my data.
I confidently say that this $20 piece of cable saved my family thousands of dollars and countless hours/days of stress while awaiting word from a drive recovery company wrt status of my HD. THANKS, SABRENT.
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