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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. I transferred 70 gigs of data within minutes - not hours.
Of note, this is not a pretty setup if you are considering long term use of an external drive. 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.
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.
However, it is an excellent tool for getting data from a lone drive to any computer via USB. I was running XP on the desktop and needed a quick way to get my data off of the hard drives.
No drivers, no tweaks, no tricks.
Would be better if it has a power switch to turn on/off. I've used it for the past two months, works well so far. All my IDE hard disks work with it.
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. My computer hard drive was going bad and I knew I had to get it out of my computer and install a new one.
it should work with sata. just make sure you got the right jumper setting (works perfect on master) tested on ide cdrom/dvdrom/hardrives. great for data recovery jobs. i gave this product 4 stars coz i hav'nt tried it on sata drives. but this product works great on ide's.
15GB of family pictures were on this NAS device, and hadn't been backed up for a few months. 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. 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. I simply cannot recommend this alternative enough. I rapidly copied all the critical data off the external HD.
Performs as advertised. 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. THANKS, SABRENT.
Maxtor One-touch III hard drive failed to be recognized by my computers, suddenly and without warning. Spoke to 4 separate drive recovery companies, and all said they'd charge between $750-3000 (on average) to "guarantee" recovery of my data.
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