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After completing these relatively simple steps, it ran like a charm, and now I have a spare portable bootable HD (Apricorn drive case with my original drive installed) that has all my files available for use if I ever need them. Because my system is an IBM Thinkpad, I had to put the new HD into the laptop and mount the old HD in the new Apricorn supplied case and make some easy changes to system setup to get the system to boot from the Apricorn supplied CD. I am very satisfied with the Apricorn Adapter after using it to upgrade my old overloaded 60GB IBM Laptop HD to a 160GB HD. I had an initial problem in which I could not get the transfer to work as described in the documentation, but a call to Apricorn Tech Support resolved the issue immediately.
It now functions as a portable hard drive.The software was also very easy to set up and use. Since it is both IDE and ESATA, I have now used it to back up several other notebooks and laptops. I bought this to back up a failing hard drive in my 6 year old Dell laptop. It was very easy to use and is very well built.
To say it "worked as advertised" for me would be describing exactly what happened. I have a T42 Thinkpad that is about 4 years old. And the computer works much better thanks to the increased size of the memory. I got it in the mail, just followed the directions and my new 125 gig drive was working and all my data including the operating system and everything else was copied to it and the laptop started right up and I haven't had a hitch since - its been at least three months now. It works like a charm still but the hard drive was only about 35 gigs and almost full. I didn't want to pay a tech to put in a new hard drive so after much investigation, I purchased this product.
I selected "Clone Disk" and my computer then restarted. The autorun installed it and a menu popped up. It then ran the clone software and cloned my 160GB drive in just under an hour. Just as the title says. Plugged in the drive using the case that was provided and popped in the CD.
The software included is very simple and straightforward I would recommend the whole set to anyone who wants to swap hard drives in a laptop it's simple enough for beginners yet complete enough for more advanced users and it makes ghosting a drive simple. A few weeks later I used it to install a new SATA drive in my personal laptop which went much faster as mine has USB 2.0 both went off without a hitch and the bay is now housing a spare drive for backups and is still working great. Most of the reviews I read on this said about how easy the use was. They weren't lying I pulled the drive bay out of the box and got right to work swapping in a new PATA drive for my mother's old laptop aside from the slow USB 1.0 on that computer it worked great.
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