It makes what can otherwise be a daunting and tricky process, painless and easy. Overall Review: LOVE the image feature to OR FROM the external drive. Apricorn DriveWire USB 2.0 to IDE/PATA/SATA Universal Hard Drive Adapter ADW-USB-KIT (Red) - 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's why I booted to the OS and isntalled the SW from there, I could have easily initialized the drive on a different box. This will make work so much smoother on checking bare drives in my lab so much so the boss is asking what they need to do to get 10 more!Ĭons: Oh man, this con is soooo minor, it won't report an uninitialized drive from the CD boot. It makes what can otherwise be a sata wire 2.5 software download. It copied my multiple users and domain logins and blinding (for usb2) speed the boot up was spooky it was so smooth, to see all my stuff and not have to reload *everything* was just. 6 hours ago Apricorn DriveWire USB 2.0 to IDE/ PATA/SATA Universal Hard Drive Adapter ADW- USB -KIT (Red) - 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.
From hooking up the bare 320 through the SW install in my OS (WinVistaUlt)and stopping to partition the drive, to the OS copy and HD swap I upgraded my Gateway laptop from 160gig (149 real) to 320gig (298 real) in <90 minutes from hook up to screwdriver down and boot! This puppy never complained. I puchased a 320 gig SATA150 to repaldce my 160 with an external enclosure. Pros: Has worked on an old 30gig IDE and my original 160 gig in my laptop.