• Reviews around clone (3.16 of 5)

    Apricorn SATA Wire Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit with USB 2.0 Connection ASW-USB-25 (White)

    • This was by far the easiest cloning of a disk I have ever done.
    • This is a good product I can clone from a live system to an external device (SSD, SATA) without leaving my application, so far the clone of two different system went well
    • The cloning of a 540 GB disk over a USB 2.0 interface was SLOW, but I went to bed and let it run.
    • I have done "clone" before and dreaded doing my most current one but this software/hardware made it
    • Afterward, I swapped the drives to make sure is was a perfect bootable clone drive and everything worked perfectly.
    • This is a great cloning software product as I went from a 500GB HDD in my laptop to a 750GB hybrid drive.
    • cloned hard drive works, except that Windows Update no longer works
    • I would definitely recommend this for cloning a hard drive.
    • I have used Apricorn cloning products to clone three laptop drives over the years, and the product worked flawlessly with the first two upgrades.
    • I gave easy to use 4 stars because it is easy to just clone to a same size SSD or HDD, knocked a star off due to a lack of instructions in case a clone to a larger drive does not boot
    • Previously, Apricorn's interface provided a quick flawless clone of my old drive.
    • This little wonder is a good little invention for cloning hard drives or SSDs any replacement drive can be easily cloned with this transfer cable
    • Very easy to install and use, and cloned my 500 g hard drive to a Crucial 525G ssd without error on first try.
    • I use this a few times a year to make clone the hard drives from my laptops
    • and I'm thinking that usb 3.0 backups might make the purchase worthwhile, even if the old SATAWire 2.0 still works great for cloning 500Gb hard drives to 500Gb SSDs!
    • Flawless clone to new drive
    • , I did the test with my laptop, the clone is very good.
    • I'd recommend buying Paragon Migrate OS to SSD if you are trying to clone a larger HDD to a smaller SSD,The cloning is seamless and pain free
    • Despite my following the accompanying instructions to the letter, this product continually produced unusable clones, wasting my time and giving me a huge headache.
    • Not only did this work perfectly, but cloned in half the time (40MB/sec vs
    • The second time around, the old drive cloned over to the new drive and it worked flawlessly and best of all, the partitions were correct.
    • The product would not create a successful cloning
    • It made the clone in about 10 minutes and the new drive worked perfectly on install
    • great way to clone hard drives for replacement or just to have an exact backup of all your files.i read earlier review that helped make sure that the partitions are the correct sizes especially if upgrading to a bigger hdd or ssd.
    • Never used a easier cloning.
    • The cloning was done error-free and the new SSD performed perfectly.
    • Clone software and cable work as expected however when trying to upgrade to a larger drive the extra space was not usable until i downloaded a free software app to clean it up.
    • After an easy clone process, I installed my new WD 320GB drive the computer booted and ran perfectly, except it showed there was 223GB of unallocated space on the drive
    • USB 3.0 cloning is amazing
    • So for $135.63 you can get the SATAWire and two 1Tb drives, and have a clone as often as you like without erasing the previous clone.
    • It ended up taking me a couple tries to get the hard drive cloned properly.
    • The Super Duper software is very intuitive and easily allowed me to partition my new hard drive and cloning was done very efficiently
    • The provided CD includes no cloning software whatsoever for Macbook Pro, but rather a link to a third party website that offers free cloning software.
    • It made a perfect clone of my old HD!
    • Summing it up, took at least 3 hours or so to get a "good" clone the first time and 5 hours and counting today
    • Super Easy cloning.
    • This made a flawless clone of my old hard drive in almost no time at all
    • I had grown tired of poor cloning software, but this worked perfectly the first time around.
    • The CD does not contain anything but Windows files and one PDF telling MAC users to go online and download free cloning software OR use Disk Utility.
    • Anyway, after several false starts trying to get a bootable clone onto the new 250G WD Black HD using various free cloning packages, I discovered this Apricorn product which includes a special Dell MediaDirect handling function.
    • Great cloned all my HDD to SDD with this
    • cloned hard drive works, except that Windows Update no longer works
    • Works fine to clone laptop hard drives.
    • Easiest cloning I ever have done.
    • USB-25 (White) cable and software worked very well to clone a 500GB HD from a HP dv7 to a 1TB HD
    • It does what its suppose to, but the OS cloning is bad, there aren't advanced settings, and the UI interface needs a face lift it looks like its from the 90's
    • I used it three times and each time it said I had a successful "clone
    • so don't use the disk..as i said before.... perfect clone the best tool i ever got for transfer steve
    • Plugged in the new hard drive (Seagate Momentous XT hybrid 500 GB), plugged the USB into the computer and had a perfect clone of my old HDD in a little over 28 minutes
    • Did not work I tired on 2 new drives after each time it said clone successful but the computer would not boot .I am thankful it did not wipe out my original
    • The software used to perform the clone didn't work, it indicated the clone was successful, but when swapping in the newly cloned drive it could not be read by the BIOS, I think the software just performed a copy, finally got it to clone using the Samsung Data Migration software
    • works exactly as advertised, cloned my old laptop hdd in about 2 1/2 hours with no fuss
    • If your cloning a hard drive to an SSD use this product
    • This works really good for cloning hard drives on PC and Mac
    • After using several free cloning solutions that continually failed I started to lose hope in migrating to an ssd
    • After cloning the files from my old hard drive, it prompted me an error stated that not all files are cloned
    • Works fine cloning 1TB Seagate SSD-HD on Dell Inspiron USB 3.0 laptop
    • This adapter and software are the perfect combination for cloning one hard drive to another
    • My advice would be to use the StarTech (available on Amazon) or some other cable at a lower price point, and find decent cloning software that actually works
    • This thing is amazing, very easy to use, makes cloning your hard drive so much easier, cloned 3 120gb SSD under 30 minutes
    • Worked great cloning a new drive
    • This made cloning my hard drive a snap
    • The package is reasonably priced and comes with useful backup/clone software for both Mac and PC
    • i was informed that was the best quick and easy hard drive cloning out there
    • I've used several different products over the years for cloning hard drives to get a larger capacity drive or a faster drive (with an SSD) and the Apricorn system is the most reliable.
    • What ensued was a 2-day saga of many failed clone attempts, the details of which would only interest a compu-nerd with nothing better to do than read Amazon reviews.
    • Got to 7% of "clone" process and stalled
    • It failed to clone for me until I fixes the damaged drive section as instructed using 'chkdsk /f' command.
    • Upon doing that, the Samsung Disc Magic disc immediately started reading my HDD, then went into a perfect cloning process: the entire cloning of my 750 GB disc took 28 minutes
    • Did not successfully create a usable bootable clone, after trying it repeatedly, trying different things, and waiting over 8 hours each time
    • Easiest cloning software I have used.
    • The software makes cloning a hard drive (even to a larger hard drive) a breeze.
    • After I restored the HD and installed EZ Gig IV, the clones that I tried to do with Windows 7 didn't work.
    • and the Clone was successful and is in the computer
    • After using several free cloning solutions that continually failed I started to lose hope in migrating to an ssd
    • Tried cloning with another setup and that worked
    • The software used to perform the clone didn't work, it indicated the clone was successful, but when swapping in the newly cloned drive it could not be read by the BIOS, I think the software just performed a copy, finally got it to clone using the Samsung Data Migration software
    • USB-25 (White) cable and software worked very well to clone a 500GB HD from a HP dv7 to a 1TB HD
    • If you're going from a smaller drive to a larger drive - make sure to go into advanced options and make adjustments in your OS/Recovery/C drive etc... not hard and everything works fine!!
    • I was concerned about the fact that the old drive had two logical drives, C: and D:, but the software handled this without a problem and copied over both logical drives with no issue
    • had to get update from dev at apricrn, real nice e-mailed right back, great software , it works wonderful, i'm using with windows 8 pro
    • Seems to be no way to only clone the 398 gig C: drive and ignore the empty E: drive