Following Dave Tolle's comment about using an Swiss Army knife, I grabbed a cheap knockoff pocket knife I had on my office desk, and proceeded to open the case

If tech junkies or IT guys could build a swiss army knife of gadgets/tools this would be really high on the list.

Took out my trusty Swiss Army knife, pried open the plastic case of the switch (two plastic pieces, glued together), and carefully cut off about 1/8 inch of plastic from each half of the case, to allow the switch to move all the way to the ON position, and used electrician's tape to fasten the case around the switch again

Took out my trusty Swiss Army knife, pried open the plastic case of the switch (two plastic pieces, glued together), and carefully cut off about 1/8 inch of plastic from each half of the case, to allow the switch to move all the way to the ON position, and used electrician's tape to fasten the case around the switch again

works as

Worked as I expected it to, very flexible for getting data off old drives, etc

As tempting as it was to read the instructions, I forged ahead and plugged and played with no problems

The power supply had died as

It works exactly as it needs to, at least for SATA which is how I am using it

Works exactly as i expected.

I have a Western Digital ATA harddrive that I needed to verify was still working as it was in an enclosure and no longer worked

Works as it's supposed to

Worked exactly as I needed it to.

Amazing, simple, and inexpensive little device (I like all three adjectives)

Within minutes, I pulled the IDE drive from a recently dead E-machine, powered it up using the supplied power supply, and connected it to the laptop that replaced it