the connector sleeve (gray part) is too wide and requires the removal of the laptop manufacturer's 2.5" hard disk sleeve/cage to get the connector to fit.

I used the boot disk to reliably get a good output disk (on the third try)

I bought this product to copy the contents of my HD to a brand new Seagate hydrid hard disk

The only reason not to buy the usb 3.0 kit might be that the usb 2.0 SATAWire has always been so fast at cloning my disks that usb 3.0 speed almost isn't necessary

This made upgrading the hard disk in my MACBook extremely easy by transferring all the data to the new drive before installing it.

plugged it in, drivers automatically installed, drive showed up as local disk, just drag and drop your files.

Used to clone existing 3-1/2" system hard disk to a Crucial M4 SSD.

The speed and ease of the SSD cloning and installation made me think that to protect myself from the devastation of hard disk failure, I should backup the system drive of another PC to an existing 3-1/2" hard disk

This connector works as expected but its software did not work well when I clone my hard disk to a SSD.Since its software is a give

Decided to try powering a 3-1/2" target hard disk from the motherboard and use the Apricorn wire only for data.

I was able to clone the hard disk to a new SSD for my Dell Inspirion Mini 1012 with no problems, without even formatting the SSD first

I had no problems installing it and had no problems in transferring my data from the Hard disk to the SSD.

Used this software to make an exact copy of my hard disk to a SSD and it worked almost perfect.

I opened the box, followed the simple instructions, and by 6:30 I had a cloned disk drive all ready to install

Makes me remember who I used to make copies of my hard disk thru norton ghost during the windows 95 to windows xp era

However the Apricorn connector is only for 2-1/2" SSD or notebook hard disks that can be powered by a USB port.

I purchased this product to back up the hard disk from my damaged HP Pavilion notebook before I got the notebook repaired and restored.

[You have to be willing to learn how to swap out a hard disk, which really is pretty easy].

Mac support consist of (1) instructions on how to use Disk Manager to clone a disk (do not work) and (2) a download link in the text file to get a crippled version of a program that might or might not work, but could be very slow

Installed the SSD in place of the 3-1/2" hard disk, checked the BIOS to make sure the SSD was selected as the boot device, and the system booted up immediately

This is an essential tool if you are upgrading a hard disk to an SSD and well worth the small cost.

Used it for four hard disk transfers to SSD.

I ran the hard disk scan and it failed.

I have used this software it works great but the disk they sent me did not work it would not boot form the disk.

This would be useful if you are cloning to a smaller drive that does not have enough disk space to hold all the data from the old one or if you simply want to not clutter up your new drive

start your PC, ignore the warning message (something like smart-disk check missing), and hit the continue link on the warning message window.6) restart your PC after PC start completely

I bought this kit to replace my old hard disk drive of my laptop

I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro laptop that I wanted to replace the HDD (Hard disk drive) with a new Sandisk SSD (solid state drive) and I planned to copy my HDD's info onto the new SSD before doing the swap

If I connect the adapter to a USB3 port while watching Disk Manager it just hangs while scanning for the new disk

With hard disk prices continuing to go down, all I do for backup is to clone the HDD every night.

I highly recommend cleaning & defragging disks and registry with good software (AVG PC Tune-Up is awesome) before cloning (although it is not necessary).

Excellent product to Upgrade your Hard Disk drive.

I purchased this unit to copy the existing disk image from a failing 1 TB hard disk on my son's laptop to a replacement 1TB drive

This made upgrading the hard disk in my MACBook extremely easy by transferring all the data to the new drive before installing it.

Booting from the CD, the program didn't even recognize my internal hard disk.

but I lost the disk.

Plug into hard drive, fire up included DVD, go eat dinner, return to a new hard disk with the exact same information as your old hard disk

In my case, that involved going into the system BIOS and designating the new drive as the first priority boot drive (I keep data on separate hard disk drives and the BIOS had selected one of them as the first boot drive

This worked so smoothly for both of my systems needing a hard disk replacement with more data storage!

I upgraded my sony laptop hard drive from the original to a new Intel SSD (solid state disk).

If I decide to do this more often then I'll look at installing it on a computer and then downloading the updates, but the Software on the CD did everything I needed an made the switch from hard disk to SSD easy and fast!

the software helps a lot when transferring data from my old hard disk

Is really a great product if you want to upgrade the hard disk drive of your laptop computer, I like it very much!

I bought this to upgrade the hard disk drive in my Acer laptop to a SanDisk solid state drive.

The migration of all my data, settings and OSX from my old 160 GB Hard Disk to my new 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive was easy, quickly and smoothy.

I've done a lot of disk swap outs on desktops and hated every minute of it.

Kept coming up with "winload.exe corrupt or missing" - support from Apricorn was to tell me to download 2 files and burn a disk.