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Cnet.com has a video to demonstrate this, search it upUSB cable came with product is slow, it's version 1.1. I have a thinkpad X61, originally 120gb upgrading to 320gb. Mine took 2 hours for about 80gb of files.Taking the hard drive out of Ez upgrade is a pain since I was afraid to damage the hard drive, you have to wiggle it a little bit as you pull it out. Recommend USB 2.0 for faster transaction. Ez upgrade is quite confusing since they don't give me an actually manual and you have to go to their website to get one. Here's a brief instruction:- Delete any unnecessary files (you don't want to waste time on this)- Clean up and defragment laptop - Turn off laptop- Connect Ez upgrade to laptop via USB and put disc in laptop- Boot laptop with disc already in laptop and ez upgrade connected- Follow instruction on screen- When done disconnect ez-upgrade and turn off laptop (do not reboot laptop with ez-upgrade still connected because it would alter some settings in the hard drive)- Follow your laptop instruction manual as to how to locate hard drive slots and how to remove them.
The software is pretty straight forward. I bought this kit to copy over my 30gig notebook hard drive to a new 80gig hard drive. You can use it on a MAC or PC if you have a laptop hard drive to upgrade. I actually called support (I hadn't plugged in the hard drive into it's socket with enough force) and I spoke with a real person fairly quickly.So, this is really a nice tool to use to upgrade your hard drive. I pretty much followed the instructions, copied the drive, installed the new copy - and viola my laptop now runs the same as it used to except I've got an 80 gig hard drive with lots of room.Plus, I reformatted my old drive and used it in the enclosure as a 30gig storage device. The enclosure is a nice machined aluminum - a class act.
Go to Device Manager2. After it's all said and done, I've got a lot more storage and a blazing fast (comparitively) laptop. I just got the Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL EZ Upgrade Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit as a Christmas present. I was glad I read the reviews for some of the feedback because I had a couple of issues, but a day later, it's like I have a new computer. Not too complex, but I wouldn't attempt this whole thing unless you're somewhat savvy with computers.Overall, I still gave a rating of 5 stars because the process worked very well, and I read that other cloning software had the same issue with the error message afterward, so I'm thinking that's a general quirk with cloning a drive with XP. I used the boot from CD method. Here's how to fix it:1.
Let Windows find the driver, you may or may not need to rebootWhen you're done, the error goes away. For all Generic volumes listed, right-click and select Update driver5.
I do strongly recommend that you go to the Apricorn website and read the detailed documentation. Scroll down to Storage Volumes and expand4.
I used it to upgrade a 30GB Hitachi drive in my Dell Latitude C640 to a 160GB Seagate. Under View, select Show hidden devices3.
Good product. My laptop has only a 1.1 USB port, so it was slow going (6 hours) as others mentioned, but I didn't have to use an external power supply.
I did have the error message afterwards when removing a flash drive.
If you upgrade this or similar Dells, you will need to remove the pin adapter from the old drive and put it onto the new drive before inserting the new drive in the Dell drive caddy. The Apricon EZ Upgrade kit worked flawlessly to upgrade the disk in a Dell Inspiron 600m with Windows XP. Cloning the Dell's 60GB disk to a new 250GB Western Digital WD2500BEVE took about an hour for copying, and a few more minutes to swap the drives.
Highly recommended. I saved a lot of money by swapping hard drives myself rather than using a shop. The cloning software works and is easy to use. The drive enclosure is very well made and can be used as a nice external drive enclosure when not cloning hard drives.
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