| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: APRICORN | | Mfg Part#: ADW-USB-KIT | | UPC: 00708326911733 | | Buy.com Sku: 204394823 | | Item#: C2J6JD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 373 | | View similar products |  |
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| | | 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 makes what can otherwise be a daunting and tricky process, painless and easy.
DriveWire is bundled with Apricorn's "Upgrade Suite" which features the award winning "EZ Gig II" cloning software for Windows and "Shirt Pocket's SuperDuper!" for Mac. When used together, DriveWire makes it easy to transfer your OS, data, applications, documents, address books, e-mail, settings and preferences - from the old drive to a new drive, in few easy steps.
Start by attaching the new 2.5" or 3.5" hard drive to the appropriate connector on DriveWire's cable head. Then connect the AC power adapter and the USB cable. Now, boot up your computer using the "Upgrade Suite" bootable CD and make and exact clone of the old drive onto a new drive. After the transfer is completed, install the new hard drive into the desktop or notebook, and the computer will boot up just like normal.
DriveWire includes: Apricorn's Upgrade Suite with EZ Gig II Cloning & Upgrade software for Windows and Shirt Pocket's SuperDuper! for Mac, a hybrid adapter that connects to any 2.5" , 3.5" IDE/PATA or SATA Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable (USB 1.1 compatible) and high quality UL Listed power adapter.
This unique adapter provides a SATA connector for the new style drives as well as 44 pin connector for a 2.5" Notebook IDE/PATA Hard Drive and 40 pin connector for a standard 3.5" IDE/PATA Hard Drive, allowing you to connect a hard drive to any desktop or notebook computer with a USB 2.0 port. This is the perfect solution for anyone needing immediate or temporary access to a Hard Drive.
You won't need to buy a different enclosure for every Hard Drive or worry about whether or not you have enough power through your USB ports run the device. Because DriveWire is guaranteed to safely provide all the power you need and it is compatible with all of today's 2.5, 3.5 IDE/PATA or SATA Hard Drives. When you combine DriveWire with Apricorn's Upgrade Suite you will have the perfect solution to upgrade the hard drive on all of today's most popular desktop and notebook computers.
| | Features |  | Hybrid adapter that connects to any 2.5, 3.5 IDE/PATA or SATA Hard Drive | | Apricorn's Upgrade Suite featuring the award winning EZ Gig II Cloning software | | Software and Shirt Pocket's SuperDuper! Cloning software for Mac. | | High Quality UL Listed Power Adapter to safely provide power to the hard drive | | Toll free technical support | | 1 Year warranty |
| | Tech Specs | | Specifications | | Data Transfer Rate: USB 2.0 - Up to 480 Mbps | | Power Supply: DC Output: +5V/1.6A, +12V/1.8A | | Interface: SATA or 2.5 IDE/PATA (40Pin) or 3.5 IDE/PATA(44Pin) to USB 2.0 | | Dimensions: 0.75" X 3.3" X 4.7" | | Weight: 5.5oz. | | Warranty: 1 year limited | | Approvals: FCC and CE | | System Requirements | | Hardware Requirements: Pentium II CPU, Apple G3 or later, 32MBs RAM, USB, FireWire, CD-ROM or CD-R/RW drive | | Software: Windows 2000 and XP, and OS X 10.X |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Value |  5 | | Performance |  4.5 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction |  4 |
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5 of 5 Easy Plug-N-Play Thursday, September 18, 2008
megastee from Gridley, CA
I found this product very easy to use. Just attach any PATA or SATA hdd and your in business. No more wasting time installing the hdd in an external enclosure. Great for computer repair jobs. I recommend this for any computer tech or techie, in general. Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 What a time saver! Monday, September 08, 2008
Brainerdscpas from Brainerd, MN
I never new transferring an entire hard drive including system operating files could be so easy. This unit is super easy to install and even easier to use. With the adapter compatible with all drive interfaces, all you need to know is what type of drive you need, and available usb port and CD ROM drive and you are good to go. The only one bad thing about the device is the mutant short 6" power cord that comes with the unit. It is a standard cord, so I just replaced it with one from an old PC. The cord works fine, it just didn't seem right watching the power source hanging down from my wall outlet. If you ever want to make a complete backup or copy of a drive, this is the tool for you. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Greate tool to clone your hard drive Monday, September 08, 2008
joewshen@hotmail.com from Houston, Texas
This product works perfectly as described by the manufacturer. However there is one important thing left out from the instruction, i.e. before using the product, you must partition the new hard drive to its maxmum size if the drive is brand new unpartitioned, and larger than 32 GB. Otherwise, you'll get only 32 GB on the destination drive. For the product irself, I would give it a 5. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Saved the day Saturday, September 06, 2008
sightseer from Houston, Texas
I had a laptop computer that had a failed main board. I had removed
the hard drive which I thought was useless, meaning I no longer
had access to the software on it. Until I discovered this device.
Now, if I want to get emails or software from the hard drive, I
merely hook it up as a USB drive (A large one) & copy the files
I'm needing. This thing has saved me hours & money!! Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great! Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Rocky from Staten Island, NY
Product works as described by manufacturer. Excellent software included. Easy to use. I was able to clone my hard drive and save the cloned drive to get back up and running without any down time in the event of any new problems. I actually installed the cloned drive to make sure it worked. I made the original drive the back up. Software was similar to Seagate when you buy a new drive. The software is a free download at Seagate or Apricorn. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Easy hard drive cloning tool Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A Customer from Paso Robles, CA
I used the DriveWire disc cloning dock, cables and software to clone the hard drives on both my and my wife's laptop PCs. We've been using PCs for over ten years and the "cloning" went faultlessly. My wife prefers to get "professionals" to undertake tasks like this, but after she saw how easily I was able to update my HD, she bought a new HD and we did hers. We were able to update my ATA interface HD and her SATA interface HD. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Invaluable device Saturday, June 07, 2008
Joe from Huntsville, AL
If you need to replace your HD, this is the perfect device and SW to use. Everything is calims to be and more. Absolutely perfect. Was this review helpful?
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Excellent Product but boot from disk Thursday, June 05, 2008
A Customer from minneapolis, mn
The product worked very well however it has 2 modes. In mode 1, you load on a windows platform and run the software. This didn't work. The other mode is you boot up on the CD and run the software from the CD. This worked like a charm. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Amazing little device! Monday, May 19, 2008
Linda from Gloucester, VA
After the initial installation problem (which was handled very well by the Apricorn tech support), the device did an absolutely amazing job of literally cloning my entire hard drive to a brand new hard drive. Pretty darn slick I think!
And for the price, you just can't go wrong. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 This product does what it was designed to do Saturday, May 17, 2008
stees4@aol.com from Freeport, Illinois
I ran into some complications that were caused by Dell Computer. I was able to get good support from Apricorn to resolve these issues. While this device works great with the 2.5 Laptop drives, there is a problem powering the 3.5 Desktop drives with this device. Once I hooked up an old Desktop computer power supply to power a 3.5 Desktop drive, I could then Clone to this drive as well. Maybe Apricorn could work on this problem, and develop a better way to Clone both 2.5 and 3.5 drives. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Extremely Handy Product Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ian from Paducah, KY
I had a number of various hard drives laying around the house with no practical use for them since I switched to a Macbook Pro. This device allowed me to use those hard drives for raw storage. Works as advertised. The power supply is a bit large and cumbersome, but understandably necessary. This is a small price to pay for such a versatile product. I have not used the cloning software yet, but am familiar with SuperDuper, and think that its inclusion only adds to the value. Pick one of these up and throw it in your laptop bag. You'll be glad you did. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Works great! Easy to use! Sunday, March 16, 2008
A Customer from Seattle, WA
This is very easy to use and no additional drivers are required on my Lenovo T61p running x64 Vista. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Finally a significant jump forward from ghosting Saturday, March 15, 2008
Roger Childs from Broomfield, Colorado
I was extremely pleased with this device. It performed flawlessly copying 2.5 inch drives to 3.5" drives as well as to like drives. I also copied a 250 gig SATA drive to my brand-new 500gb SATA drive, swapped the two and booted flawlessly. It is so easy to run the copying or cloning process from Windows or from the boot CD that comes with the product. It seems to only want to work with USB 2.0 as I did not have success trying to copy from an older notebook that had only USB 1.0 ports. I considered buying a PCMCIA card that would allow a USB 2.0 connection, but wasn't sure if the drivers could be loaded from a bootable CD. I had numerous 60gb, 100gb and 160 GB drives laying around and now they are all backup clones for each of my computers. Finally, an awesome advance. Was this review helpful?
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 PRONTO PLUG & PLAY Sunday, March 02, 2008
LADYTECH from BROOKLYN, NY
AWESOME ! WORKED FROM JUST PLUGIN' IN NO NEED TO INSTALL SOFTWARE IF YOU JUST WANT TO BACK UP FILES TO ANOTHER DRIVE AND NOT CLONE. SMOOOOTH SAILIN' THANKS BUY.COM AS ALWAYS YOU ROCK !! Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Very handy tool Saturday, March 01, 2008
Dennis C. from Rock Island, TN
This little device offers a convenient means of connecting to another system nearly any drive from a laptop or desktop. Overall, it does exactly what it is advertised to and it works quite well. I'd like to see it come with a case to carry the components in though, and a power cord that is much longer (the original is only about 6 inches long, but I've substituted one from an old computer that works great). Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Gerat Item Saturday, March 01, 2008
Bob from Pennsylvania
Pros: It does everything it claims. Software was easy to set up, and the device is simple to use. Tech support was very helpful and quick to respond. (See "cons"...)<P>
Cons: The only thing to be careful of is that there is nothing to support the drive besides the interface it plugs into. I am careful when working with things like this, but still the 2.5" interface on my DriveWire started to crumble and break away at one end, so I had to send it back to the manufacturer for warranty replacement. This could possibly be a common weakness of these devices, but I haven't seen any forums that discuss it anywhere on the web. Was this review helpful?
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Backup, Cloning, One solution for all Wednesday, February 13, 2008
guoatwork@gmail.com from detroit, michigan
Saying Goodbye to Norton Ghost that I have been using for years...
The hardware supports all kinds of Hard Disks except SCSI.
The software that came with it is a big plus. Supports Vista/XP, external USB HD, networked HD, FAT32 & NTFS file system...Much easier then Norton Ghost.
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 A Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Aristotle from Washington Twp, NJ
This product is the newest version of an older idea that could only handle IDE drives. This one can handle all the new types SATA/PATA with exceptional ease. You can extract data from an old hard disk that can no longer boot to Windows by just plugging it into the USB port of another PC. You can also upgrade your 20 GB to 300GB with extreme ease by just moving all the data from the old to the new hard drive using the enclosed software. I don't think it gets better than that.
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5 of 5 Apricorn DriveWire Universal Hard Drive Adapter w/ Monday, December 03, 2007
dwelch@charter.net from Greenville, SC
Excellent product. Allows me to use any number (not all at once of course) of almost any type of hard drive as an external back up for all my data and clone my primary hard drive as a back up in case of a drive failure. Works with laptops and desktops; 2.5" and 3.5" drives; and with three types of drive interface. GREAT PRODUCT! a must for every serious computer user. Was this review helpful?
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