No installation was required and I was easily able to access my information from the hard drive.

It has 3 different plug types for different hard drive types.

Any docks that could handle all my various hard drives are expensive.

Have used this to recover two laptop hard drives already.

fortunately for me my hard drive was still readable

I used these to move data from 3 old desktop hard drives to a new 2.5" raid setup

Made the job of upgrading hard drives on an iMac and Macbook significantly simpler.

Because of this cable, I can now use them for backing up my internal hard drives.

Not an attractive use for permanent external hard drives.

This was used to copy a dead computers hard drive files onto an external drive

Retrieved my lost files from a old hard drive in a matter f minutes.

* the Sata drive was OK, because I got the "Connectland USB 2.0 External Enclosure for 3.5-Inch SATA/IDE Hard Drive CL-ENC35008" from amazon also, and *that* worked fine; I'm scanning the drive even as I type

I had no idea this device even existed but after some internet research about how to try to retrieve files from a dead hard drive I found a reference to this device and it worked beautifully and allowed me to copy files off a dead hard drive.

It worked great, and now I can get rid of the old hard drives

Now I just try to save any useful information to an external hard drive and forget about trying to recover anything off of an internal drive at all from a computer that has died.

It's as simple as hooking it up and opening up your hard drive as if it was a folder.

If you can't figure out how to use this, you might not want to use an unenclosed hard drive in the first place

Great adapter to have if you spare hard drives laying around

The product has multiple types of connectors to fit different styles of hard drives.

After un-boxing, I was up and running the IDE hard drive from my old XP desktop (motherboard fried) computer in

You cannot boot from hard drives attached with this cable

This adapter did not burn my hard drive and was easy to used for a novice computer user like myself

I know just enough about computers to be really dangerous, but I had a laptop monitor die with a new hard drive trapped inside.

Maxtor One Touch III1 Western Digital SATA hard drive from an old Dell computerLiterally plug in cords, (power first, then USB) and watch them pop up on computer

My computer recognized the hard drive and I was able to copy the data with zero issues.

This product helped me to recover the files I needed off of a laptop hard drive.

Doesn't fit my laptop hard drive

Turned an old hard drive into a 70 GB external storage

This week I had a very important PC hard drive start making the click of death

Over the past 15 years I have collected an army of hard drives from dead computers both Mac and PC (laptop and desktop)

Would recommend it to anyone who needs to operate an internal hard drive outside a computer.

But all other drives have worked fine with this adapter.

Was pleasantly surprised to see that this cable worked on an old internal hard drive that I thought had crashed... actually it was my computer's motherboard that wasn't functioning

Then a quick search on Amazon showed there were products which could retreive data off of a hard drive.

i was able to move data over just like i would on an external hard drive.

This device saved thousands of photos on my hard drive that went out without warning

I was able to get them off my old hard drive that I could no longer hook up to my computer.

I purchased this to try and recover photos from an external hard drive that was no longer working

The Adapter cables fit into the Hard-Drive's power-supply and interface

When I tried installing Linux on a spare hard drive (to then put in another computer) it failed at least five times

Actually, there was a 60-90 second delay between plugging the adapter in to my IMAC and my old hard drive appearing in my Finder window

Will work with any kind of hard drive

Recommend for computer repairs and emergency hard-drive transfers.

This is a must have if you have extra hard drives laying around or have one in a computer that just died.

Some of the one-star reviews had me worried about the device frying my hard drive.

All it took was removing the hard drives from the cases by removing screws and pulling cases apart, then carefully unplugging the drives.

Product worked great but unfortunately my hard drive self destructed previously from a

It allows the connection of several of the most commonly used hard drives without having to go inside the PC.Got an old drive sitting about

so I can plug all of my cables in and then put power to the hard drive

: The drives did tend to overheat after a little while (10-15 minutes), so I began putting them on top of an old wooden pot holder (yes, for hot cooking pots when I put them on the table)

Had a few hard drives laying around from old computers I stopped using and wanted to see what was on them

He suggested I take the hard drives to someone to try to recover some of the data

Windows will not let you go into your MY DOCS directory after you recover your hard drive and want to look at it from another computer

Time is the only factor with hard drives, since it takes several hours to wipe and format a large HD

I was able to plug in an old 500g hard drive that I was unable to use after upgrading my

Now I even have a backup hard drive to my current laptop.

It came with a pinhole blocked, so when I tried to connect it to my hard drive which has all my archives from 2000 to 2006 broke one of the connecting pins of the hard drive

Now I have a lot of extra hard drives to use that were just lying around before.

I transferred ~2,300 files of around 3MB each in 15 minutes or so4) files were intact and able to be placed on the new machine and immediately recognized by iTunes.5) supports the two most common older laptop drive types with nothing more than the cable itself, and supports the larger drives usually found in servers and desktops with an external power supply and 4-pin power connector

You can read the old drive, delete files, drag and drop files to the new drive, and recover all that stuff you thought you lost and would have to

But it does support partitioning and booting, i.e., you can install Linux on an old hard drive, plug it in, and boot it just fine

I turned the switch on (turns green) and the hard drive started to spinning and Win7 right away installed the driver automatically and was ready to go.

It gives me a lot of flexibility with all the older hard drives i have.

I have a pile of old hard drives which my wife doesn't want to get rid of, so I bought this so we can access them without keeping a huge PC tower around

I have since pulled hard drives out of 2 other old computers and recovered even more data.

so this works well to plug & play old PC hard drives

This is a great product to grab just in case you have an older computer...or still have one laying around that you still have the hard drive to

This is a handy gadget, and you need one if you have old hard drives laying around

In less than a minute out of the box I was able to access files from an old hard drive that had been sitting on the shelf for years

I plugged it into my Windows 10 laptop, connected a hard drive, and after a driver installation popup appeared briefly and disappeared, the drive was available to be inspected and worked on by my disk wipe tool

The only other adapter you should get if you want to be 100% safe with any hard drive is an "MSATA" connection; thankfully, these types of connectors are dying off fast, but you don't want to be waiting for that adapter.

Dell Inspiron desktop crashed ... motherboard, etc ( out of warranty) which I really didn't care about so long as I could transfer my files,etc from hard drive

I've been taking apart and putting back together computers of different kinds for decades now, and recovering the data from good hard drives from otherwise unsalvageable computers (or ones just not worth fixing) is a recurring issue

Product arrived quickly, and within 5 minutes, the hard drive (SATA Drive) was taken out of the laptop, cables were unboxed, and everything was plugged in.

Last weekend I opened the new kit and to my dismay the kit would not work on a lot of the hard drives I havd already checked

I wanted something that would work with the modern as well as old-type hard drives and bought this kit based on the positive reviews here

I has a power supply module for powering both serial and parallel hard drives, and also 2.5 inch drives.

I removed the hard drives from all 4 desktops and in short order with this cable was able to plug directly into this laptop and transfer those wanted items.

I had an old IDE hard drive that I wanted to get some files off of, and this worked like a charm

I got this to copy over some files from a dying hard drive after I built a new PC

But the concept of retrieving info from inoperative hard drives remains strong.

It fried my extra hard drive on the spot

My old hard drive completely

Would have been nice to have clear directions, but I found a video on YouTube and after that, it was easy to remove the data from the hard drive of my deceased laptop

I had no issue with my hard drive going up in smoke either like other people have claimed.

The hard drives are as follows

Luckily I kept my old hard drives and I was able to read them using this adapter

It lets your old hard drives work great as extra storage, or like me you just need to get off the old pictures and music after rebuilding a computer

This is a great tool for backing up, copying and recovering or repairing hard drives.

I removed the hard drive and followed the instructions

I was able to clean off some old hard drives I had lying

Able to get all old pictures from old hard drive and put on my new laptop.

not as fun as having a dock, but much more mobile, works great and all looks well made, i was easily able to attach a old hard drive to my Mac Mini and it shown on the desktop as a

All drives were easy to connect recognized by Windows 7 and then re-formatted with the Computer management utility.

So I took out both hard drives and hooked them up to this and it worked perfectly

I bought these to have access to two hard drives that were failing

Everything worked and the hard drive is now installed and working good.

Item arrived earlier than expected which was awesome because I was antsy to get some old files out of my hard drive

Easily transferred everything to my external hard drive.....too easy!

Not only was I able to recover using this product, but I was also able to reinstall the data on separate hard drive on one of the PC's in which I replaced the board.

I had to access and work on several IDE hard drives.

item has the adapters for older and newer hard drives, worked, got to see what was on some older hard drives.

My computer died - but I knew the hard drive was good (thank goodness!).

I bought this to get data off of old hard drives and it works like a champ

Makes it very easy to get everything off of my old internal hard drive

Good for Pata and Sata as well as notebook drives.

Works just like a USB hard drive

Additional software might be needed for hard drive that have blue screened but its well worth the investment

First, I didn't have any of the problem with burning up the drive that others talk about

Main use thus far is with an old laptop hard drive

This is a band aid solution to connect your hard drive but the quality is not so good.- I can feel a strong stream of static electricity by just touching

Other adapters allow you to have one USB cable specifically for power and another for data (and power), allowing you to run most hard drives without the use of an A/C adapter

Worked great on modern and older hard drives.

Anyone who claims to know computers needs to have this in their toolkit - you'll never know what kind of hard drive you're going to run into, and this type of setup ensures you're never caught saying "I'm not able to do that for you".

But then I noticed it and the hard drive fired right

I ordered this so I could take the hard-drive out and get my info off of it

Been a life saver for badly infected hard drives while trying to clean up the disaster a young teen causes while surfing on the internet by themselves

Due to the external power supply for the hard drive it will power any and all drives I have.

So I bought this adapter and was able to hook up my internal hard drive to my second computer

I was able to get my files off my old hard drives very quickly!

And now I have a nice hard drive I can use as an external for backups and such.

I would definitely recommend this to anybody that needs a quick transfer from one hard drive to another.

Virtually make any internal hard drive USB by connecting a few cables

I haven not tried the IDE interface yet, but I have a hard drive with

These cables are excellent for utilizing internal hard drives as external hard drives

I was able to retrieve may date and pictures from 2 IDE Western Express Internal hard drives that I had removed from my P2,and P3 computers, years ago

I was using the unit to pull files off a hard drive

I now have this as my recommended product for all short term external hard drive operations.

It works and we were able to recover hundreds of pictures from old hard drives.

I first did a CHKDSK and repaired the corrupted hard drive as much as possible, but I still was blocked from getting my pictures and files by Windows security.

It comes with my adapters and can fit most hard drives

After the power supply on my notebook failed, I needed a way to recover files from the hard drive.

I had 2 hard drives full of family pictures and this product made it super easy to access them

This item is useful when you're doing work & file transfers with old hard drives

I connected my hard drive to my laptop running XP, it works like a charm.

but I am now out a hard drive

I have a bunch of old hard drives and didn't know what was on

I use it to format and reuse old hard drives for storage

Comes with many different options for connections for a variety of different style hard drives.

This allowed me to connect my old hard drive to my new computer via usb and transfer the data

This kit had just what I needed to get all of my data off my Hitachi Deskstar hard drive that I thought I would never get back

You can get the functionality of this product for a lot less than this costs, and in fact, I've used these cheaper products successfully but, you know, when one of my old computers turned turtle with two hard drives full of useful "stuff" I decided to treat myself to this USB to IDE/SATA adapter, just in the hope that it would be

Just what I needed to rescue my dead external drive

I used it to pull data off of an old desktop hard-drive that had been laying around my garage for a couple of years.

I had already removed the hard drive from the PC so all I had to do was skim the directions, hook everything up as indicated, then plug the USB connector to my MacBook Pro. Voila!!

Work like it was supposed to and did everything that was need to retrieve pictures off older hard drive

I was able to access OLD legacy IDE hard drives to retrieve files.

I had several loose old hard drives to review and this adapter did the trick

It basically makes any hard drive like a flash drive.

I purchased this item hoping I could recover data from my PC's hard drive, which suddenly refused to boot

I was able to use the cable for various MFG hard drives (both SATA and IDE) except for one Western Digital Caviar 320 GB drive.

I really love this product, It allows me to move everything from my old hard drives and consolodate them onto new ones.

I have been looking for enclosures for my old IDE and Sata hard drives from my old computers/laptops just to see what's on them

It'll turn any hard drive into an external drive without worrying about putting the hard drive into a housing of any kind.

When my hard drive failed in my Compaq notebook, I had already been careful to back up my data to an external drive, but there were still items on the drive that I didn't want to lose

Great for hooking up a Internal Hard Drive to a Computer as a External Hard Drive.

I have five internal hard drives I've pulled in the last few years and wanted to get some data off

This little gadget is saving me lots of headache retrieving data from old hard drives - now I can smash the drives and not worry about the data being hijacked.

Anybody can use this to easily get information from an old hard drive, or a hard drive that has stubbornly decided to no longer work

I used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer the files to a new hard drive

Works great to quickly hook up a hard drive via USB.

I have 4 or 5 old hard drives from old computers, all different brands and plug in types, and it worked seamlessly

Hard drive info recovered within minutes!

The drive powered up all right, but my new Windows 7 computer declared it an invalid drive

I used this on my Windows 7 computer to recover data on an old 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive, as well as a 2.5" SATA hard drive, and it worked perfectly on both and no drivers were needed

I used this on my Windows 7 computer to recover data on an old 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive, as well as a 2.5" SATA hard drive, and it worked perfectly on both and no drivers were needed

This little unit has been able to help me recover some lost pictures from a few failed hard drives.

This dongle and power cable connects right up to all my antiquated drive types

I was able to connect my old 60GB IDE drive and recover some of the contents.

I had a pile of old hard drives to copy onto a PC and it did them all without complaints.

I bought this cable for my IDE hard drive and it performs like champ

I used this product to get files off of an IDE and also a SATA hard drive and it was extremely easy to use.

Helped me to retrive data off of Old Hard drives and even run an old Memorex DVD Burner

I can now access my old IDE or SATA laptop hard drives or my interal desktop hard drives I had lying around.!!

Even the directions don't cover all the possibilities of destroying your hard drive as this happened.

The massive 2.5 GB hard drive yielded every byte of information in no time

This seemed to be necessary for particular IDE hard drives with specific issues.

Hasnt had one issue picking up hard drives

With a few simple connections, I was able to connect both hard drives (one at a time) and copy all of the files I wanted.

but i figured out that i had an old hard drive and didn't have to use the cord for the power outlet but only the adapter for hard drive and plug it in the pc with usb.

I had a bunch of old hard drives that I've collected over the past 15 or so years.

The C2G was able to read an old 1999 Seagate IDE drive as well as relatively new 1 TB SATA drive

I disassembled the laptop to get out the hard drive, hooked up the cables and plugged it into the replacement laptop and was able to copy off all the data I needed

Great little gadget to recover data from old hard drives!

Transferring all my hard drives and quickly too

I supports every drive type out there and makes it easy to get data off an older hard drive

PRO - USB access for hard drives normally mounted internally - Power switch on power cable adds another level of protection to exposed normally internal hardware.

I followed the instructions and as soon has the power went on the smoke started rolling...trashed my important backup drive, and now afraid to use it on others

At the time the manufacturer wanted $1,800 to recover the drive's contents

I was able to get all of my important files off my laptop's hard drive when it failed

I just brought home a old hard drive from my parents place

I needed to run a repair on my hard drive (which the product allowed me to do)

I had a old hard drive and wanted the information that was on

IDE hard disk drives

It's been a while since I bought this or used it, but it was easy to use, had clear instructions, and I was able to access my hard drive right away

I pulled the doc files off 4 hard drives in less than an hour, and I was eating breakfast while I was doing it!

i have used it to recover data from a corrupt OS, to securely erase piles of old hard disks, duplicate a hard drive for an upgrade, turn any disk into an external drive, etc.

A must have for anyone working with hard-drives

Had a laptop that was no longer working but wanted to get data off the hard drive

I was able to recover valuable data from a hard drive that I had almost given up on

Another good way for this is if you have a Hard Drive lying around that you want to use for backup and don't have a actual external Hard Drive, this will come in handy, it can be treated as a external hard drive.

I had a bunch of different types of hard drives laying around that I wanted to use for various purposes like backing up data temporarily while reloading an operating system, or to store my digital music/movie collection

the transfers are fast i didnt have any problems what so ever when transferring drive to drive, or just mounting a hard drive to get information.

Works perfectly for reading much older hard drive I needed to access.

I bought this to help a friend out and recover the contents of his laptop hard drive

I tried this device on three different USB hard drives for my Mac that were known good drives

As long as your hard drive is operable, you should be able to pull everything

Well, after dozens of man-hours at forums, and searching online, and watching video tutorials, and asking around, and buying an external expansion hard drive (that was recognized by the new pc - but not by the old pc!), and trying a flash drive that turned out to be faulty, I finally bought these cables

worked a charm to get data off 1 Tb drive that would not boot, Make sure connections are fully seated for drive to be recognized!Very useful and fairly priced

Finally found this product that will read my 3 old western digital hard drives.

I have lots of old hard drives in computers I don't use

I purchased this in 2012 to be used with some hard drives I had sitting around

We had a portable USB hard drive that broke.

IDE Hard Drive, use the included power supply which has all the necessary power adapters (4-pin or SATA), and a USB port for you to plug it into your new computer.

Buslink L40/40gb external hard drive

And now, I can use my old hard drive as an external backup drive

Over the years I've installed a floppy drive, replaced and/or upgraded several hard drives and CD/DVD drives, and used system image backups to restore her "C" drive after it had gotten corrupt

My old laptop crashed, and I used this to get some files off the hard drive

but I did not know if the hard drive was bad and may cause damage to my second computer

I have several hard drives that I keep to store photos and music that i don't want clogging my

I didn't move many files on my friend's PC, just left it connected as an exterior hard drive.

These cables make it very easy to use bare hard drives for archival back ups or extra storage.

beats any hot swap enclosure system i've ever used (and let's face it, most external hard drives don't fail, it's the power supply or something else wrong with the enclosure anyway)

It works so well that I think I am going to hang on to that old hard drive as a file backup location

The cables included are easy to use and allow you to hook the old hard drives to your current laptop or desk top via an USB cable or a sata cable.

, the other claimed it needed to be formatted (the format prompt comes up, unlike the corrupt drive which I had to right click on and choose format)

This worked great for getting all my info off an old desktop hard drive.

My old hard drive which was dead was woken back up!

This is worth the price just to have around, and I can even put data back on that old hard drive as an archive if necessary.

Now I can hook up all my old hard drives to see what files I need

I just hooked up a friends daughter's hard drive to my computer with no problems and immediate recognition

This is much better than a standard external hard drive enclosure for situations where you only want a temporary hook up to transfer files from an older hard drive, such as if you upgrade to a larger drive, and it is compatible with 2.5" laptop drives as well as 3.5" drives.

Used this to get hard drive data from a dead computer.

This bad boy allows you to yank information off old hard-drives -- be it from a laptop or a desktop

It made swapping out a dying hard drive on an old iMac an absolute cinch; it was so easy I showed my 14 year-old how to do it

First, while painfully considering what to do with the good drive loaded with abundant data from the old PC, which finally failed, I thought that it should be possible to make a relatively simple SATA drive adapter and, hence, some company should make them

One of my laptops died and needed to rescue the information on the hard drive

You could use this to create a temporary portable hard drive to archive pictures or documents.

Has the connections to hook to virtually any hard drive.

(As long as your hard drives are not corrupted or broken)

Would definitely recommend this for individuals trying to connect their old hard drives to recover data or to convert an internal HDD to an external one

Got all my old family pictures from my old hard drives.

I finally took apart my 2 year old Western Digital Elements USB external drive and connected my old hard drive to the built-in USB adapter from my external hard drive

I had my doubts about this product, but after it arrived set up was simple and once I removed my hard drive things moved fast

I have used this device to write other files to an external hard drive or DVD

That actually worked flawlessly, so my old hard drive was not at fault--instead this CablesToGo

Once the 2 were formatted, it read them as usable hard drives

I thought I had lost a bunch of pictures from my external hard drive.

Probably, when a hard drive is removed from a desktop or sold new, it includes this cable, but the SATA cable inside the laptop was "special" and I couldn't take it out to use it with the dock.

word beautiful with my old hard drives,thank you, I'm recommended this product.

The new pc treated the EIDE hard drive as though it were an internal SATA drive.

This adapter is great if you have some old hard drives laying around, and you want to collect data from them

Just the same, I connected the SATA data cable to the adapter as well as the 3.5” SATA drive.

Still the hard drive was not accessible

I could not extract/cut/copy anything out of a couple of bad sectors.**Here enters this USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA adapter...the operating system recognizes the drive instantly.**Transfered large file to other drives...flawless and fast operation.***A must have - power adapters make this product even more likable.

I have a lot of old hard drives from Computers Past and this little doohickey made accessing my old data a snap

I took apart two computers and two DVRs and got three working hard drives

My new PC has the newer hard drive connections so I could not plug in my old IDE hard drive as a slave drive.

I only use it for photo transfer from my computer to full size hard drive,

All depends on how bad the drop was and the condition of the hard drive after being dropped.

I took my external hard drive out of the case, hooked it up and there were all my files

Perfect for recovering data from old hard drives, pc's thta have crashed.

Great IDE to USB cables for old hard drive

I have used it to rescue data from several types of hard drive

Sure I could complain about the device not being super-fast, or that the drive doesn't 're-recognize' if I turn off/unplug the unit and replug, but I can think of no better solution for easily retrieving files from a hard drive.

how hard drive's could have those plastic pieces in the back that you have to move around (maybe laptop hard drives are different).

Excellent for converting an old Internal hard drive or internal DVD drive into an external USB drive for backups

What the virus did was put some form of lock on all my pictures that I was trying to retrieve from my laptop hard drive, then telling me to down load a browser to then go to a website where I can buy an in lock code to retrieve my files

This was easy to use and was valuable in helping me save data off a previous main hard drive.

It turns out the drive is fine, the device didn't work.

Yeah!I read the reviews, got a little spooked from the people who claimed it burned up their drive, but I decided to give it a go anyway

It hooked up very easy to an old hard drive I pulled out of my desktop computer

The drive read just like a thumb drive or external HDD in Windows Explorer.

I wasn't able to retrieve the data from another Seagate IDE hard drive as I think that the hard drive was corrupted/damaged

I also noticed a few plugin alternates to this do not support Western Digital drives.

exactly what I needed to get data off my old hard drive

The hard drives vary in age and manufacturer and are listed below:Baracuda 200GB Model ST3200822AWD Caviar 31000 1GB

I bought this to transfer data off my old dying hard drive to my new replacement

I have since pulled hard drives from very old computers (late 90's early 00's) and combined all my old data onto a new hard drive.

We got this product for one particular hard drive and used it then and it worked great, we didn't think we'd need all the additional adapters but we ended up using it when my other hard drive failed

Easy solution to a common problem; computer bites the dust yet hard drive data & programs can be recovered without outside help.

read my old laptop hard drive immediately... very handy product, works with both 2.5 and 3.5 sata or ide hard drives.

" ATA Hard Drive hookup, made extracting the data and photos from my old hard drive absolutely easy

I wanted to find out if any data was on the hard drives before destroying them.

I wouldn't use it as an external drive connection on a permanent basis, because both the cable connection and notebook hard drives are quite fragile; but it's like carrying a fire extinguisher in your car - you hope you'll never need it, but it can sure save a lot of heartache if you do!

With this product, I do not have to open the computer housing to temporarily attach a hard drive.

Power adapter is missing one of the connectors in the end of the plug going to the hard drive, could not power up drive

I can use it on other hard drives, desk top and laptop.

I have a number of hard drives from the computers I have owned

I killed the mother board on my laptop (spilled tea...mother does not care for tea), but the hard drive was unaffected

Better equipment to access data on hard drives.

Voila, you have an external hard drive with easy access

I purchased it to get some data on an old IDE hard drive and it worked perfectly

Here is the problem..if I hadn't tested all of the hard drives before, I would probably concluded the hard drives were bad rather than the kit

I'm always nervous about plugging in a running drive to a USB port because there is a slight risk of static shock, which can burnt out the drive electronics from a power surge

If you need to retrieve files off old hard drives, I would recommend this because it doesn't cost a whole lot and is very easy to use!

Was able to access 14 year old hard drives in minutes

I had 3 hard drives (2 x SATA, 1 x IDE/PATA) on my old computer and didn't want to lose any information

Note that the same drive powers fine from the USB port when I use it in a Vantec enclosure that I have, so the issue is not with the drive.

I thought i would have to pay someone hundreds of dollars to get the data off my hard drive.

Saw this online forums saying it can help the old Hard drives.

This is a great product to crack into a hard drive without mounting it or having 16 different adapters.

Most PC boot problems are software issues (or power supply), not hard drive failures, and this puppy will get those precious files off the old hard drive

I removed my old hard drive and put it on my computer hutch

and, the suspected hard drive doesn't get power off the computer.

I was able to down load the data from my old hard drive.

Believe me you won't need instructions this is the first time I have ever even seen an exposed hard drive I have no experience except being charged 100's of dollars too many times for others to do this for me

This device was just what I needed to get my info off of hard drives from my old computers

I am a professional photographer and use an online backup program as well as an external hard drive to back up my precious photographs

Hard drive would not turn on so i plugged it into computer and same thing

I was able to fire up hard drives that had been sitting around collecting dust for years

Even if you don't, this can be a lifesaver if the boot sector of your hard drive goes bad and you need to get data off of it before re-formatting or repairing the hard drive.

The second time trying it with the new item my hard drive wouldn't even start up

I was able to recover the hard drive data from a broken laptop WinXP PC.

I give it a 5 star rating because my hard drive crashed and wouldn't let me log in to the computer, but this was able to extract the information I needed to I could put it on the new computer.

I had very sentimental pictures on both, and needed them off the hard drives.

I hooked up an old IDE hard drive to a newer Windows 7 computer that doesn't even have IDE on the motherboard, and it took less than 5 minutes from opening the box to seeing the hard drive in Windows Explorer

It was very useful to get files from old hard drive.

This product worked very well; I took out an old Apple PowerBook hard drive and was able to connect it to my current Apple PowerBook via USB.

So I ordered a second one because I had about twenty hard drives that if need to extract data from, wipe and then sell donate or throw away

I have some old, old hard drives (parallel

great for retrieving data from hard drives

So far I have used this on a mix of hard drives and optical drives in both IDE and SATA formats.

I had an old hard drive from my old computer and after reading reviews of other adapters, I was scared

This cable helped me retrieve data off of a hard drive that was in a dead laptop and from an external hard drive that I had accidentally dropped

My computer died but I knew the hard drive was good

Power switch and LED convenient for power cycling during recovery and troubleshooting faulty drives that may not be responding.

It plugged right into the old hard drive and into my new computer.

Read a lot about how it may crash your drive or have a surge run through it, but i had no such problem with this

The internal hard drive spins, but there's no connection through USB

it took some tries but the old hard drive was eventually seen by the system, no fault of the C2G unit.

WOW... is what I want to say!!!!This product helped me rescue 2 external hard drives in under 30 min.

So I can now use my old hard drive to back up my new Dell PC.

Item was as advertised, Fast shipping, Easy as plug and play, detect the hard drives right away without any delay, It is nice that it has a On/Off switch on the power cable so you do not have to pull off the power plug all the time in order to disconnect the power to the unit.

I finally recycled the old computers stacked in the basement, saving only the hard drives.

I was in no hurry because I had checked all of the hard drives with the first kit

Eventually tried it on a working hard drive, which also did not work.

Able to read my old hard drives and transfer information to a new drive

Super easy to do once you get the hard drive out of the computer (which you should be able to find a step by step instructional guide on the manufacturer's website)

I was able to transfer my files from the hard drive to a safety drive in order to format the damage drive

I have several old hard drives and I've just been too lazy to go through the process of opening up my case, setting the pins on the HD, strapping it, etc

Allowed me to access and wipe ancient hard drives with little hassle recommended

Having several old hard drives sitting around- IDE & SATA- this SATA bridge has allowed me to get some old documents and pictures off of them that I had long thought lost.

a lot of people complained about the power cables smoking, nearly starting a fire and frying their hard drive

This is a great tool in utilizing multiple hard drives of various sizes!I use it to diagnose hard drives when fixing computers on a Sandboxed system

Like others, will use the old hard drive as a backup for my current computers using this device.

I was able to work on the IDE hard drives without any problems.

I used this to pull data off some older hard drives before getting rid of them.

turns any hard drive into an external hard drive.

However, if you need to extract data from an old hard drive, this inexpensive setup makes good sense.

RPM 8MB IDE Hard Drive Sold on Amazon.

this makes transferring files on either failing or questionable hard drives much easier to do

Was able to retrieve all the files and information off an old hard drive

I can now go back to some old PC hard drives and pull out some "useful" information with little hassle.

So I've concluded that the drive is dead

C2G proved to be robust and very versatile, being able to instantly identify my old IDE r/w DVD drives as well as old IDE disc drives

this drive adapter did exactly what i needed it to do - provide an easy way to transfer data from an old hard drive to my new laptop!

I plan on using it next to clone a another laptop's hard-drive to a SSD.

I connected it to a SATA drive and my laptop recognized it as an external hard drive

Had to pull old info & pictures off of a hard drive.

Everything required to hook up any hard drive was included in the box; no extra cables needed.

This device will NOT resurrect a 'DEAD' drive

to SATA/IDE hard drive cable

Will work on SATA drives too.

Some hard drives will be powered by the USB port, others will require a wall outlet (adapter included).

Keep in mind that for the backup image to be imported from an external drive that one MUST use Easus to create a bootable CD to boot into and from which to operate should a hard drive fail

I've got a drawer full of old hard drives that I wanted to trash but not before retrieving anything that I needed off of them

I had several IDE hard drives from old computers I had replaced and it was getting difficult to access the files.

The hard drives powered up but none were recognized

It sees the old hard drive as an external storage device and I was able to navigate and transfers ALL my important data and pictures and such onto my new computer

My problem was one drive was bad so it would not

I was looking for a way to transfer files from my old PC hard drive to the only computer I had left (MacBook)

My computer just bit the dust, and I was looking for something to use to get my old files off the hard drive.

Exactly what I was looking for so I can finally get rid of all those old hard drives

--there's my hard drive's files, available in Explorer!

I have been looking for something that I could use to access some old hard drives

Saved the day in that i was able to retrieve everything from a damaged hard drive.

At the beginning I was not very convinced that these cables would work in helping me to operate my hard drive inside the destop of my computer, but after installing and connecting the cables and the short wait to see the results I was very impressed of the final output

I had two PC's in which the board failed and needed to recover the data from the hard drives

I now can retrieve everything on my old hard drives

It basically converts your internal hard-drive into an external hard-drive and shows up as a new drive in "Computer," formerly "My Computer

Like others, will use the old hard drive as a backup for my current computers using this device.

In literally 5 minutes I was able to transfer the files from the old hard drive to the new computer.

I did know where the hard drive was located on old computer... if you did not.. add 3 minutes to google it and find utube video on how to remove.

this is awsome let me connect any hard drive to my

If you are using a new Hard Drive with this device be sure to follow the formatting instructions given on the half page manual

I wanted a cheap way to access the hard drive off an old laptop that went dead.

I was expecting a cheap gadget that with a little care I might be able to extract a few files from some old IDE hard drives

The other drive refused to be recognized on my XP desktop

The failing disk lasted long enough, I was able to find cloning software, and the new hard drive is running in the computer I am writing this review on.

A bad motherboard on my laptop did not allow me to access the hard drive to remove important files

I needed it to extract data from an intact hard drive of an HP laptop that died

Then, I moved my good sata internal testing drive from this device (that would not connect) into my existing sata external docking station that also plugs via usb.

These cables helped me recover data from over two dozen laptop and desktop hard drives that I've had laying around for years

I've tried other solutions for accessing data on old hard drives with disappointing results, but this little gizmo did the trick.

Able to quickly swap hard drives

Works with bare drives very well.

I should get money back and money for all 3 hard drives!

I had an external hard drive that couldn't be read by any of my computers

This worked great for retrieving photos and files off of my old hard drives

Both the power connector supplied in the package AND the plug on IDE hard drives are appropriately notched to allow only a specific way to connect the two.

The computer recognized the attached hard drive and I was able to transfer all of my data from the hard drive to my second desktop

My computer died but I knew the hard drive was good

I got it hooked up to my smart tv through the USB, I watch all my movies through the hard drive

Just for fun, I tried connecting the power cord upside down to my IDE hard drive

My hard drive went dead and I was panicking because I didn't have it backed up.

My desktop decided it wasn't going to read my SATA hard drive

Not long after, my dog knocked my external hard drive off of my desk and it stopped working

Has an AC adapter that plugs into the hard drive and a usb plug that plugs into the hard drive

This lets me connect any hard drive to my computer via the usb connection

The hard drive can be seen by an I/OMagic unit that I subsequently purchased at Staples

Turned it off and on for a few more tries until finally the failing drive

For whatever reasons the computer stopped working and a friend suggested trying to retrieve the documents from the hard drive using this device

I had a catastrophic computer failure and assumed that I could never recover all my data from my hard drive without a lot of difficulty

I have a hard drive full of pictures and other stuff, of course, never backed up

So I went online and found videos that explained how to remove my hard drives.

thanks for this cable, I would be able to get everything from the hard drive.

I do use extra caution to make sure I plug it into the hard drive correctly, after reading some of the horror stories others have posted on these types of devices

If you have old computers that you don't want to throw out because there MIGHT be something on the hard drive, you can use this to pull all of your personal files from them

Used it once and it worked great!, still have 2 more hard drives to extract data from.

Its nice to just take this with me when I need to plug in a hard drive

I pried the case off the drive itself and used this to hook up the SATA hard drive directly, and it did that brilliantly, too

I am a professional photographer and use an online backup program as well as an external hard drive to back up my precious photographs

I can't be sure if the drives are bad or not so they will probably get destroyed instead of wiped

OK, clean up the drive and clear off the malware

I have a IDE hard drive that I use for backup purposes but the new motherboard I'd recently installed didn't have the proper connector

It is so nice to be able to extract a hard drive from any type of computer and just plug it into my master machine for diagnosis and testing.

Couldn't ever get it to boot again and the hard drive had several old family photos and lots of music on it.

After having a computer for the last 20 years or so, I have a collection of hard drives that reflect a continuous cycle of upgrades and new computers.

It's the best option in terms of universal hard drive adapters.

It supplies the power and the proper drive connection, then plugs into a USB port

I had several old hard drives from discarded computers and copied the data to my new computer in minutes.

When I had to replace my hard drive, I thought I was saying good bye to all of my documents I had not backed up

I think the true value is you can totally and completely wipe an old hard drive before disposal.

Good for recovering stuff off of old hard drives

After backing up my data and selling the blank hard drives - as well as the broken laptops for parts - this cord paid for itself

is the only way to work with old and new hard drives

Just attach to hard drive, plug into usb port, power up and you're ready to go.

Only thing I had to do was change jumpers on the hard drive to cable select or slave, depending on the drive(s) I had connected

I had a huge stack of old hard drive from 1999-2014 and needed to do file restoration on all of them

so well it sees the brand of the hard drive an other adaptors I got just showed USB storageVery versatile work with IDE and SATA drives

The drives that didn't work with this adapter did work with an adapter that I cobbled together with parts from an external USB backup enclosure

But had some old IDE hard drives from computers which won't work

I killed the mother board on my laptop (spilled tea...mother does not care for tea), but the hard drive was unaffected

Item broke when I put it into the hard drive - very, very cheap quality

If there was a drive controller failure, a damaged head/platter or a motor failure - Your drive is DEAD and this device is not MAGIC! - my drives were all operational IDE drives

I got my pictures and music off of a dead drive

from my old desktop's hard drives.

Once my old hard drives were removed from the dead desktop pc, only took 5 minutes before I had access to the removed drives.

If you are like me you have a stack of old hard drives laying around that you store old files, home movies and photos on.

After trying everything I could think of I installed a new hard drive, re-installed Windows Vista and was good to go

Just follow the simple instructions included in the box and you will have your drive connected and available in no time

I was able to access all of data on my sister's hard drive and move to her new computer.

Clicked on drive, noted that the hard drive was being read, and waited for about 5 minutes as the green progress bar moved across the drive address.

I can plug in a variety of hard drives for diagnostics, virus removal and file transfers

Overall, though, the adapter does everything it promises (it never promises you can boot through it), and it allows me to read/write from SATA, IDE, and laptop hard drives, so I give it four stars overall, and 5 stars for ease of installation and use.

Though the hard drive being used will show up in the boot options list (assuming your PC supports booting from USB) and will start to boot, the OS will not complete booting

" ATA Hard Drive hookup, made extracting the data and photos from my old hard drive absolutely easy

and I was able to recover files from my IDE hard drive.

read my old laptop hard drive immediately... very handy product, works with both 2.5 and 3.5 sata or ide hard drives.

I tried this product on three different computers with Windows 7 and Windows XP operating systems, with different old hard drives

Power Supply went out, so I took the hard drives out and hooked this up to a desktop computer with Windows Vista, and had no problems getting the information I needed off either hard drive

I simply plugged my 2.5" hard drive into the adapter, then the USB into my

I learned about sata/IDE to USB cables and I noticed a wide variety of them, but many of the cheaper ones were ruining people's hard drives and some of them even caught on fire

I carry this adapter in a small box along with a hard drive

Took literally 15 minutes from getting the box to getting all of my old files off my old hard drive.

Very handy little unit to have around when you need to get data off a pulled hard drive for desktops, laptops, and even legacy drives

And now I can use the old hard drive to back up the new computer! Bonus!

Now i can salvage files from old hard drives

Used to recover data from 4 hard drives

Files have been removed from hard drive

I needed this to rescue some stuff off of old hard drives, both Windows and Mac

Yes, the drive was usable, it turned out there is something wrong with the laptop that is used to operate in

"The adapter supports all existing IDE/ATAPI devices such as Iomega® Zip®, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and IDE hard drives

I took apart two computers and two DVRs and got three working hard drives

I just needed to be patient for my old hard drive to finish booting up.

Once the 2 were formatted, it read them as usable hard drives

This product does exactly what it promises: If you connect a readable data-based hard drive to it, it will read it.

Only wish I could have retrieved more data off my old hard drives

Item worked great, was able to save data from old hard drives

No matter how many times I tried to connect or how many ways I adjusted the jumper, it just would not connect the hard drive to the computer

Would definitely recommend this for individuals trying to connect their old hard drives to recover data or to convert an internal HDD to an external one

However, the most difficult time I had was removing the hard drive from my failed laptop.

You could use this to create a temporary portable hard drive to archive pictures or documents.

This cable let me salvage an old IDE 80gb Hitachi hard drive from a 2005 vintage Dell 2400 desktop to use as an external hard drive/backup for an old laptop

This is much better than a standard external hard drive enclosure for situations where you only want a temporary hook up to transfer files from an older hard drive, such as if you upgrade to a larger drive, and it is compatible with 2.5" laptop drives as well as 3.5" drives.

*Had a (what I thought it would be) dead hard drive which kept freezing my system every time I tried accessing it through the Windows Explorer.

A very affordable way to use your old hard drives.

No problem," said I, "Just rip out the hard drive, mail it to me, and recycle the rest."

The cable basically turns the hard drive into another drive under the "my Computer" icon where you can double click to open and see the hard drives contents.

Work with all of my old hard drive, though one bad drive did end up crashing explorer in windows.

Now I can easily take my stack of old hard drives and recover the old information I was looking for.

I tried to read the drives in Windows 8.1 as well and none of them even showed up in Disk Management.

It took everything off my old hard drive and placed it on the new one

Plan was to pull the drive out of the old laptop and copy the files off it with a USB>hard drive connector disk "kit" using the 1-year old MacBook

I did watch some Youtube videos on how to remove the hard drives from the other computer and how to use this, just to make sure.

I needed it to try and save information from an old external hard drive.

Still if you have a bunch of hard drives or are having a hard time accessing hard drives using internal sata connections, this is a good way to do it without affecting your

My hard drive and data is now destroyed

It is great to move data from and old to new hard drives.

I purchased three Hard drive docks, one for each type of hard drive connector; two of them gave out on me.

After suffering a computer crash, the hard drive would still spin but was not recognized by the cpu

I have a Thermaltake hard drive dock with USB and for some reason it is much faster when transferring data than this for SATA drives.

Not a big deal really, I'd still recommend this product for anyone needing to connect a hard drive to your computer without the hassle of opening the case and connecting it up inside.

I tested it on several machines and with several known working hard drives, both SATA

works just as advertised and now I can transfer my files from my old hard drives right on the desk top

Worked as advertised, easy to use, just plug in and connect to usb port to access files on hard drive.

The instructions were extremely helpful (And the name of which cord you need is printed on the cord itself), so it's relatively easy to figure out how to hook your hard drive up to this

We had a portable USB hard drive that broke.

I have had old hard drives sitting around that had some artwork on them as well as pictures of our kids that I had forgotten to transfer

I followed the instructions to try to retrieve data on a hard drive gone bad

I tried this device on three different USB hard drives for my Mac that were known good drives

Cable connected to hard drive and computer usb port.

The blue data transfer LED lit up in the adapter and in about a minute, the drive appeared in my list of available hard disks in Windows 10.

Recognizes every hard drive I throw at it and no need to unplug the USB cord between hard drives.

I have other hard drives that I have been saving and was suprised to find some old pictures and writings that I had long forgotten

I bought this kit expecting to be able to easily transfer data from hard drives removed from old computers

rather, after replacing the drive, i hooked up the dead drive to this and was able to mount it and migrate my old user from it

And now I am savaging contents from my old hard drives on my new computer without having to opening up the box and install the drive inside

This kit is a great solution to all of those needs-- quickly grab & wipe those drives from times gone by and help family or friends reach data that may be on the hard drive of a failed computer

This helped me recover almost all the data from a failed SATA drive in my old laptop.

I use this adapter to pull info off old hard drives or HDD's that won't boot their OS

I used this along with another product to recover a hard disc drive off of a defunct laptop computer.

This should last you until they come out with a non-Sata type hard drive

You could probably wipe the old drive, partition it and re-install it as a second hard drive

Still the convenience of having an external way to access hard drives is a big plus

or if they are bad hard drives.

I followed the instructions and as soon has the power went on the smoke started rolling...trashed my important backup drive, and now afraid to use it on others

The first time I plugged it in the power cord between the block and the hard drive got insanely hot and the power switch shut off.

Fantastic - salvaged all our old hard drives from years past.

I had two old IDE hard drives that came out of my old system.

It helps me when cloning hard drives andwhen a computer doesn't have a factory CD-Rom or DVD-Rom drive.

As long as you're okay with the circuit boards of your internal hard drives exposed to static, this is a great device

Good price for good value, allowed me to access my older hard drives from past computers without needing to go through any sort of complicated process.

I have a Seagate Freeagent USB storage disk, and it was able to communicate to a hard drive through the Cables To Go device easily and quickly by hooking them both up to the computer and accessing the Seagate back-up-disk software.

These cables did the trick and I used CCleaner (free app) to wipe the hard drives

Had an old hard drive that an IDE connection.

Allowed me to use old SATA internal hard drives as external backup drives.

HP agreed to send me a new hard drive, under my warranty, but the deal meant returning the defective drive

I feel that it's my fault actually in all of what I did to the hard drive leading up to purchasing this cable (not reckless, although that would have made me feel a lot better)

Now i have 3 hard drives that wont even power up

Once that's all ready, you have a temporary external drive!

I knew it had to be the hard drive, I mean, it was 15 years old and hadn't been booted up in probably 5 years

Although it doesn't show in the picture, it also comes with a power supply and 4-pin connector to power the hard drive

I asked a guy at work about these USB hard drive adapters, and was particularly concerned whether my wife's old hard drive would interface

This cable can really save you a lot of hassle when you need to access a hard drive directly, either IDE or Serial ATA

These cables are great for retrieving all of your data off any hard drive that is IDE/SATA, and these cables make it easy to plug the hard drive into another computer via USB to retrieve that data

Use some software to copy the hard drive to the SSD then replace the hard drive with the

Works on all hard drives

It didn't take me too long to figure out where the power was supposed to plug into the hard drive, but then it took a lot of time and headache for me to figure out how to connect the USB cable to the rest.

worked awesome, finally for my files back from dead drive

Before buying this I was looking at the cheaper models, but decided against it because some of the cheap models fried the hard drives

With this hook-up, I was able to look at half a dozen old hard drives I still had laying around

Excellent solution to the problem I had where the motherboard died on my older laptop and still needed to pull some old data off of the hard drive before I scrapped it.

The main reason i purchased this was to try to recover data from an external hard drive that had stopped working

Your hard drive becomes an external mass storage

Anyway, I needed to check and see if I could get the data off her 2.5" SATA hard drive.

I had purchased one of the other devices here Diablotek EN3525D Hard Drive Dock - 2.5"/3.5" SATA I/II to USB 2.0.

I have 4 or 5 old hard drives from old computers, all different brands and plug in types, and it worked seamlessly

This is the coolest little gadget for checking to see what is on old hard drives and using them as an external storage if you want!

every type of hard drive advertised I used it on and it worked fine

I used this on my Windows 7 computer to recover data on an old 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive, as well as a 2.5" SATA hard drive, and it worked perfectly on both and no drivers were needed

The new Cables to Go adapter has already handled 5 hard drives since I got it last week, no fuss, no problems.

Best Buy wanted to charge my brother $1500 to get data off an external hard drive that was no longer working

The reason I initially needed it was because my hard drive

This little gadget is saving me lots of headache retrieving data from old hard drives - now I can smash the drives and not worry about the data being hijacked.

Also I have used it for connecting an older 2.5 inch sata drive to the USB port on my XBOX 360 to transfer files to a new hard drive.

Great for rescuing hard drives!

Great for hooking up a Internal Hard Drive to a Computer as a External Hard Drive.

Did a excellent job allowed me to access and recover data from the loose secondary hard drive of my failed computer

It gets to a point that with too many hard drives from myself and family members are hard to track and see what's in them

No problems accessing my old Windows formatted SATA drives from my Mac

Product worked as described- very happy with purchase - easy to use and set up and worked great with ide hard drives.

This adapter kit allowed me to recover extremely important files off of a supposedly dead hard drive.

This device was able to let me recover everything from every single hard drive

I used recently to offload the heavily fragmented OS/X file system off an iMac (which has no space for a 2nd hard disk) onto a SATA hard drive using USB - then back.

I have never used this type of cable to recover contents from a hard drive, but its all pretty simple "plug and play" used the review video of this product posted here on amazon as a reference

Beware that it may take considerable time to get the permissions changed on the hard drive of the failed machine before you are able to transfer the files.

After reading the reviews of several IDE to USB adapters, some of which damaged the hard drives people were trying to read, I decided to go with the Cables to Go 30504.

- Quality product that is easy to use and seems to have less problems than other similar products - Inexpensive and very handy,CON- No cloning software; (One of the other products came with free cloning software)Overall this is a very good product for my use in archiving and backing up data to older IDE hard drives

I was able to dump data from a stack of old hard drives I had lying around.

Green power light was on but hard drive did not spin

A word of caution using loose drives, however: make sure that you've set the drive on a flat, stable surface and keep it away from speakers and things that can generate strong magnetic fields that can cause damage to the media

No worrying about "Will this work with my old drive?", because if it's a standard Hard Drive used in the last 10 years, chances are you're fine

did exactly as described, allowed me to fetch old data off of VERY old HDD hard drives

lights and other electronic equipment seemed possessed ... going on and off ... repeatedly ... even though all of our electronics are on surge protectors, when turned on after that, our old gateway would not boot up nor would it turn off ... only the fan seemed to work ... went searching for Drive Adapters but most others had that Mission Impossible feature to them where the drive you were trying to rescue started smoking a few minutes after being hooked up to their faulty power supply

I was looking for an adapter that would work with any type of hard drive

Worked perfectly for a WD ATA hard drive from a Dell desktop, and a small laptop drive as well

One reviewer commented that the drives will get very hot, I have not noticed that on any of the 3.5 SATA drives that I have used

great for hooking up a separate DVD drive or testing an internal hard drive, only bad thing is due to the way the connectors are

It has been awesome--no more opening up cases and pulling wires, all I have to do is plug in an AC adapter and a USB cable to the computer and use the appropriate connectors on the cable set and I am in business, accessing the hard drive.

It has the various connectors to work on older and newer PC hard drives and makes transferring data off an old PC hard drive simple.

it's hard drive.

Easy Hookup, easy to use, and works on all my hard drives

I now use this device to make a copy of their entire hard drive so that I can restore their computer to the last state it was in when I worked on it, operating system/programs and all

The adapter part that attached to the hard drive has 3 connections, one for SATA (at the smaller end), one for your conventional (E)IDE drives (3.5 inch) and one for the 2.5 inch laptop drives.

However, even the slightest of jolts to the hard drive or cable adapter and it will lose connection to the hard drive

I have bought so many hard drive/usb adapters trying to get them to work through USB, none did til now.

When swapping from one hard drive to another unplug the USB first so it can re-initialize the connection to the new drive.

These cables are excellent for utilizing internal hard drives as external hard drives

Don't worry about a case for your hard drive

I think I used the internet to figure out what thing in the CPU was the hard drive.

And now I have a nice hard drive I can use as an external for backups and such.

so I could check all the old IDE hard drives I have around the house for any data, etc.

I was able to easily wipe over 10 hard drives I've had lying around for years

my laptop refused to boot and i knew that my partition was corrupt ... used this and DiskGetor and retrieved all the data to a second hard drive ... recovered all the data by myself ... something that a company was asking $2400, i was able to do in about a 100 ... love this product

Worked great on modern and older hard drives.

This was a quick, inexpensive way to retrieve data from hard drive in a computer which crashed and wasn't worth fixing

What a relief!So - for an great price, this drive adapter did WAY MORE than I expected.

One of the coolest aspects of this item is that you can connect a laptop hard drive to your PC without any external power supply - the USB port itself will provice enough power to run a laptop drive.

I used it to power both a SATA Hard Drive and an IDE DVD drive and it worked like a charm

On my Windows 7 computer it found the SATA hard drives I own without issue

My old computer crashed (bad motherboard), so I needed to get to my IDE hard drives to transfer data to a new Windows 7 machine.

I can now use my old hard drive as a traditional external storage drive

Really saves me a lot of time copying drives, moving files and backing up hard drives when something goes wrong

Strongly recommend to anyone as an inexpensive way to rescue files on a hard drive.

My computer died - but I knew the hard drive was good (thank goodness!).

Works as expected, have about 10 hard drives from all different format which I was able to transfer to my NAS325

I just wanted to put emphasis on that point, there is no guarantee that data from a crashed hard drive can be recovered.

I originally bought this to power an old ZIP drive, but the drive must have been damaged because all I smelled was burning insulation

I've used it both with new and old hard drives.

I purchased this adapter to erase a bunch of old hard drives before recycling them.

Easily transferred everything to my external hard drive.....too easy!

Had an old IDE hard drive connected to my laptop via USB in less than two minutes.

For evaluating hard drives and turning any internal hard drive into an external hard drive it's great

Just have to remember to treat it like a thumb drive, not an installed hard drive.

So I took out both hard drives and hooked them up to this and it worked perfectly

Everything worked and the hard drive is now installed and working good.

It needed to be unplugged from the USB port between each hard drive swap and it only recognized 1 of my 3 IDE drives.

Worked great for recovering data from one hard drive and for running a remote virus sweep on another infected drive

I had to replace a 1 TB hard drive in a Tivo and found I did not have the ability with the new machine to plug 2 hard drives in

I had some old hard drives stashed with other miscellaneous computer odds and ends, which I had figured I would likely never retrieve any files from.

Then i plugged it back into first hard drive that worked and nothing happened

I was able to clean off some old hard drives I had lying

That's service!Comes with ATA/ATA cable for laptop hard drives, and a 2.5/3.5/IDE/ATA to USB cable, a dual option power supply for IDE and ATA drives, and AC cord.

If the drive does fire up and the the voltage is not provided, the power supply is not good

The single page instructions were simple to follow and in no time I had correctly connected the power and data cables to my hard drive and to a different laptop (via USB), where I was easily able to recover all the files from my hard drive.

I went back into my office to find the hard drive burning a hole in the counter

allowed the use of old hard drives for offline storage and was very nice product still have it on the ready.

The hard drive brought back some good old memory

Great for getting at data on old hard drives on obsolete machines

I was eager to see if I could recover anything from its hard drive

I basically turned a bunch of old internal hard drives into extra backup storage.

I don't know offhand the difference between different hard drive types and the disk didn't identify itself as a particular type, so I needed a kit that would work with a ton of different drive types

If you are fearful your data is long gone, Google how to freeze your hard drive

Someone who needs to keep extra hard drives running indefinitely would benefit from a more expensive product, one that includes a protective enclosure

I had an old IDE hard drive that I wanted to get some files off of, and this worked like a charm

Worked perfectly for me to access files off a SATA hard drive I had in a Dell Optiplex 760 PC

Popped the my old drive out, plugged everything up, and it worked just as advertised.

I wanted something that would work with the modern as well as old-type hard drives and bought this kit based on the positive reviews here

Works just fine with Mac OS and the drive behaves just like a typical USB flash drive

This adapter was exactly what I needed to get data off an old hard drive

And our new machine acknowledged the drive right away (thanks, Apple - and I'm not being sarcastic this time)

I needed to clone the Mac Mini's original 160 Gig SATA internal hard drive to a new 750 Gig SATA replacement.

Forever after, I don't have to crack open a computer case to examine a relative's hard drive or one that I didn't label properly when I stored it

I am not a computer pro, but I needed to get some data from my old (bought in 2001) computer hard drive to transfer it to my new computer

1. remove hard drive from old computer--- 2 minutes (had to find screwdriver)2.

I've been taking apart and putting back together computers of different kinds for decades now, and recovering the data from good hard drives from otherwise unsalvageable computers (or ones just not worth fixing) is a recurring issue

I am not a techie and this was easy, plugged it into the hard drive I removed and poof, accessed everything as I remember immediately and was able to save all my data.

I can also use the larger ones to create extra backups for off site storage using hard drive I already own.

Im a computer tech and work on many computers and i am yet to come across a hard drive that isn't recognized using this adapter

I plugged it into my Windows 10 laptop, connected a hard drive, and after a driver installation popup appeared briefly and disappeared, the drive was available to be inspected and worked on by my disk wipe tool

I connected the old gateway's hard drive to the Drive Adaptor and then to the

Great for reading internal hard drives, or even ones that were external where the USB interface went out.

This cable allows you to connect a faulty hard drive from laptop or other computer and both save the data and potentially re-format and re-use the drive.

Unless the drive is damaged, you can format the old drive, copy files to it, or destroy it so that no one can ever look at your data if they get your drive from a recycle place

I have since pulled hard drives out of 2 other old computers and recovered even more data.

The hard drive would power on for me with a solid green light on the power adapter after connecting the cables and turning the switch on, but my MacBook Pro wasn't able to recognize it

I have since cleaned-up the former notebook drive and, along with the C2G adapter, can now use it as a large portable drive.

Perhaps magic glasses that can read right through the case of a hard drive?

Excellent device to quickly and easily hook up a hard drive or DVD drive as needed

Very simply - needed to wipe a hard drive in an old non-working PC before donating to a local charity looking for old hardware

This has helped me recover info off of five hard drives so far

This hard-drive access and transfer device was $20 well spent

Worked great, recovered all I was looking for on my old hard drive, extremely simple and straight forward use.

Just copy/cut and paste the files to your hard drive or flash drive and your files are saved.

It works great and I'm loving grabbing all those old jpgs. and personal files that's been stuck on the hard drives of my dead computers.

Windows will not let you go into your MY DOCS directory after you recover your hard drive and want to look at it from another computer

I ordered this adapter to access an old laptop hard drive from a computer that isn't working.

I routinely remove and shelve hard drive when they are full

All data retrieved from crashed Segate SATA hard drive within 2 hrs of receipt of cable

It works great with the options to connect hard drives.

I use this to check on internal hard drives before I use them in a computer

Saved my hard drives from a dead computer

I've used it many times on all 3 kinds of hard drives and it has worked flawlessly every time.

I removed the hard drive from the dead computer, hooked it up with these cables, following the user's video instructions and was able to retrieve 100% of the data easily.

Just plug in the hard drive

So if you have any dead laptops with salvageable hard drives, this cable is a handy way to turn the drive into a cheap external USB drive.

Product worked great but unfortunately my hard drive self destructed previously from a

After the work was completed on the IDE hard drive, the USB connection did not need to be reset.

Armed with this device, which arrived very quickly after ordering, I was able to access over 95% of the data on the defective drive, saving it to an external storage drive without difficulty, using Seagate backup software which was free online

Very simple to use and it was very easy to transfer data to my SATA hard drive that I use for a back up.

Works as described, hardest part is getting the SATA drive out of a laptop.

This honestly makes your old hard drives a plug and play on your computer

I still had an old IDE hard drive with all of my images and music files on it, so I needed some way to interface it easily with the new computer.

I've only had this hard drive adapter for a couple of hours

There's a ton of different options for different hard drive setups

This is a great product and includes everything you need to hookup a Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE hard drive.

I had a SATA hard drive in my laptop that would not boot.

Brought it to work to test out some old IDE style laptop hard drives.

I had a few old hard drives to secure erase before discarding, and had no way to access them.

i was able to move data over just like i would on an external hard drive.

but I was able to plug it into a computer that was already on and it loaded up the old hard drive perfectly

I used it on a SATA hard drive

My cousin got one and she plugged 10-yr-old old hard drive into her new computer and we moved all her stuff

comes in handy for reformatting hard drives and troubleshooting

This week I had a very important PC hard drive start making the click of death

I grabbed my functional laptop, this box, and her hard drive and met my family at the shore for July 4th weekend.

I bought this to recover the data on 2 hard drives in my crashed mac G5.

Testing hard drives out of their enclosure

The 3rd was an older hard drive (maybe 10 years or so) and it immediately smoked (literally a puff of smoke came out) something on the HD circuit

Just be sure to turn the power supply off and then back on when changing to a different hard drive.

This adapter did not burn my hard drive and was easy to used for a novice computer user like myself

So my final advice is: this device will allow you to use old hdd as PnP external drives, but dont' expect to be able to resurrect dead (faulty) drives with it.

I was able to hook up to a hard drive that would not boot in my system and extract all my information, great product!

Also is the perfect tool for recovering data from broken equipment, just take the hard drive out and plug it in in another computer

I had an external hard drive that suddenly stopped working

But I plugged everything in between my laptop and my new internal hard drive, and it showed up on my computer for a minute or so

Finally got a new PC and needed a way to read my collection of different hard drives to transfer some stuff

Yanked the drive, slaved them using this, and copied the drive to a Western Digital solid state drive.

So I had this hard drive that may or may not be usable.

Bought because computer wouldn't boot due to hard drive beginning to fail.

Started to smoke hard drive

I have three old hard drives on the shelves...and before giving them away I used this adapter system to access the drives and reformat them

I ended up recovering other drives, including a powered book-style drive my kid dropped 5 years ago

Works great for transferring old info from hard drives to new pcs, also can use for a external hard drive connection.

I have multiple hard drives pulled from old desktop and laptop computers over the years

I tried several hard drives, including a brand new one still in the anti-static bag, with no luck

fortunately for me my hard drive was still readable

Have used this to recover two laptop hard drives already.

I pulled out the 2.5" hard drive, installed a new hard drive on the laptop (supplied by Dell under warranty) and connected the old hard drive to the SATA connection through the USB port

The power cables also still work, as of now it just can not read SATA hard drives

When my old DELL PC died I understood I had to remove the hard drive before I recycled it.

I gambled that the problem was in the ide to USB board, because if it was the hard drive itself, obviously my data would be lost.

I had tried loading it as a secondary hard drive in other computers to get the pictures off too no avail

My operating system was unstable on my old system and this made it very easy to remove the hard drive from my PC and back up my files to my new system.

It works with sata and ide, both 2.5"(laptop) and 3.5"(desktop) hdd's as well as cd/dvd drives

Great device, I was able to pull lots of data off of a bunch of old hard drives, including some really old family photos.

the cable also has a blue led light to let you know that the drive is connected and working great product

Worked flawlessly with the old 40 GB IDE Samsung Spinpoint hard drive; however, I didn't buy it for that hard drive

This adapter has been a life saver - it works on all types of hard drives, laptop drives, desktop drives with SATA and IDE connections

Did everything I needed and was able to get 1000's of pictures back from a dead external USB drive that control died on.

For evaluating hard drives and turning any internal hard drive into an external hard drive it's great

After years of pulling hard drives out of old PC's, I had tried unsuccesfully to use clamshell cases and direct wiring to my computers.

I got this to use to recover the data from a hard drive in a laptop that died

I think it was designed for using a hard drive as a more permanent external drive whereas this one seems more like the kind of thing meant to frequently swap out hard drives

I then proceeded to buy a similar device to see if this item was the problem of if I just had a lot of bad hard drives

You don't need to buy anything else to use your hard drives!

Great now I'm able to use old hard drives for backup data.

Tested it on hard drive i knew that worked

It's easy to do, just do a web search for "How to Take Ownership of an Old Hard Drive", you'll get something useful

purchased new Samsung 840 Pro 500GB SSD from amazon (awesome drive!!

I have owned this a little over a year and had luck using it on no less than 2 dozen hard drives

I bought this in hoping it can save my old IDE hard drive

This product looked to be a quality unit, with good reviews as well as good versatility - not only can I use it to interface my 3.5 inch IDE drive, I can also link 2.5 inch notebook IDE hard drives and SATA drives as well

and I needed to get my video and music files off the hard drive, and with this gadget, I was able to do so

Used it with both SATA and IDE drives to recover some old files.

This is easier to use than to install an internal HD into a PC with an existing hard drive; ie for a slave drive....

The drive was fine but it was not worth the "data recovery" fee that the local companies wanted to charge us.

It also has a plug that works with the "modern" disk drives (SATA)

I found this amazing adaptor that is "easy plug and play" and recovered data from 3 different drives:2 external hard drives with IDE drives that are not compatible with Windows 7:

In my case my SATA hard drive failed on my Vista machine, so after installing a new hard drive, I needed to recover my data.

Before i tried cable all 3 hard drives worked but one would not boot

I pulled the hard drive out, tethered it using this cable to my PC and discovered that the computer had a virus that had multiplied itself so much, it had totally filled the laptops entire HD

I recently had my laptop's CPU fail and was able to get all my data off the hard drive using this little adapter

The new drive did not show up until it was formated, but once done, it worked without a hitch.

bought it to hook up my old IDE hard drive, worked great, simple plug and play

I was skeptical of the product when I purchased it, but felt it was worth a try to retrieve information from the hard drive of a fried laptop.

If you are a computer tech and you have a failing hard drive or blue screen..... this is a must

I took out the hard drive (really easy - just unplugs) and hooked it up to this gadget and plugged it into the USB port on my new HP-G7 computer.

but it did what I needed it to do which was get the data off of a laptop hard drive (broken laptop but not broken hard drive) and transfer it to another laptop's hard drive using Windows on that other

The only thing that I needed that wasn't included was a SATA cable that would go between the hard drive and the hard drive dock.

UBUNTU installed on a flash drive allows you to see all your files and transfer them over to a new hard drive since it is NOT Windows

If you have a internal hard drive and would like to transfer the data or look at what is on the drive this is the way to go

I got rid of my old desktop but kept the nice DVD burner drive

I've had no connectivity issues hooking up my old hard drives with this device

Until I bought this connector, I had a make shift setup to check hard drives.

I'm using the power feed to connect a internal hard drive externally

This is a great solution for anyone who needs to check hard drives quickly and easily

I have four other hard drives, and this adapter worked on all of them.

If you need a USB hard drive adapter, buy this one.

just works!Hey Incompetent Drive Adaptor

10 year old hard drives with Windows XP worked with my Windows 7 PC flawlessly, data transfer was fast and in a short time work was done

This works great to retrieve data from old hard drives.

(WD has an excellent utility to test drives), so I wouldn't say that this adapter "fixed" the issue as I'm sure that the SATA controller on the MB is much more fault intolerant, slowing the drive down in hopes of having fewer read errors.

Have used a couple of times...works perfectly...got data off old hard drives and hooked up old cd burner.

Had a busted laptop with a good hard drive that held an entire iTunes collection

I'll never get used to the extra loud sound of the drive outside of the computer hooked into this thing, but it read our old drive perfectly and worked great for transfering files!

This worked great to get some old file of mines off of my old hard-drive

I recovered all the data on my old hard drives

This was easy to use and fit my hard drive

I removed the hard drive and used this cable to access drive and copy the files off the drive

I highly recommend this product for anyone needing to gain access to an IDE hard drive that does not have a PC capable of utilizing them.

I needed to transfer data from my 7 year old pc that had been using Windows ME, EIDE hard drives and FAT 32.Needless to say, there was a whole bunch of incompatibility problems that needed to be overcome.

May not read “odd size” SATA hard drives.

Apparently it's too easy to plug it into the hard drive upside down, resulting in destroying said hard drive

Purchased the cables to check contents of a hard drive removed from a desktop PC

Simple to use and great for quickly testing and running hard drives, well built with many connection options - great price.

Also I would like to wipe the hard drives and this makes it real easy to do that without using a special program like DBan

Using this and Data Rescue 4 software, I was able to save some wedding photos that my daughter thought she'd lost forever, after her Macbook pro's hard drive crashed

After reading the small manual/instructions, I was able to attach, read, and format two different older internal IDE hard drives using my newer Windows 7 desktop PC with no problems at all

Even for the non-techie who has extra hard drives laying around.

Too bad used drives are selling so high, LOL!

I ordered the SANOXY® USB 2.0 to IDE / SATA Converter Cable which fried one of my hard drives

I was able to extract my data from a hard drive from an old laptop

Windows Vista recognized the drive immediately and I was able to retrieve data from several old hard drives.

So far I have examined the number of hard drives pulled from a number of different computers, the only failure being a severely damaged hard drive

Careful, power cable can go in reverse polarity and destroy your hard drive, as happened to me

I am able to hook my hard drive up to my computer like a usb drive, put my movies and shows on it and then bring it to my living room and play them on my big screen

Tip: I did note that when working with several IDE hard drives in a row, I had to go back and restart the sequence for each drive

I had very important work on the hard drive, that i didn't back up (always told myself il back it up tomorrow) so looking around i decided to go with this product to recover my files from the hard drive

My computer broke down and I was able to retrieve all of my data using this device and by removing the hard drive

was able to recover data from laptop that doesn't work prior to formatting the hard drive.

I bought a new pc a few months ago that uses Windows 7 (64 bit), SATA hard drives, and the NTFS file system.

I had old ide hard drives that crashed from my desktop cp, haven't looked at in years

I collected an old 3.5" IDE hard drive I needed to save, plugged the drive into my new drive adapter, plugged the adapter's USB connector into my laptop, hooked up the adapter's power, powered the laptop on, slid a Clonezilla boot CD into the laptop and booted to

I was then able to eventually copy and paste all my old data onto my new SATA hard drive quickly and easily (except for one problem which I'll talk

The quality is very high, and it is versatile for most situations you will find yourself in if your computer dies and you still have a good hard drive with information you have not backed up yet

I am a Pc Tech and needed this cable as as secondary way to access hard drives, and works perfectly!I am only hoping it will last a good bit of time, cannot expect to last, the quality is low but can't beat it for the price.

The old hard drive will show as a USB drive, then it is easy to retrieve the files or folders

worked but my hard drive was dead

I used it to access a hard drive of a computer that crashed

The cheap one I bought came from China and burned up two hard drives, a new one and an old junk one I used for a verification test.

Bought this because my one of my hard drives stopped working on my Windows 98 computer.

She has had the drives sitting around for years and bemoaning the fact that years of photos were gone.

One thing I really love about it is that other than using it for transferring files you can also use your IED or SATA as an external hard drive

I use it daily to copy files off internal hard drives and have had zero issues with is thus far after a year and a half of use.

I had files on the hard drive which I wanted to access

I've have a number of single-purpose drive adapters that I've both bought and built in my tool collection, but the CablesToGo 30504 has become my go-to adapter to slave up hard drives needing recovery or working with netbooks without CD/DVD drives

I was able to access all my data from the hard drive easily.

I have used it to connect some old hard drives to the computer to recover some files from a dead computer hard drive.

Got this because my workstation crashed and I had some stuff i needed off the hard drives, hooked this up to the hard drives and then to my laptop and got all my information, this product works with IDE and SATA drives great item

I was able to use all my old hard drives.

Short version: Worked perfectly for hard drives from 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010

I'm not a "techie", but I didn't want to spend an ungodly amount of money of getting files out of my old hard drive.

I hooked up the power cable, plugged in the hard drive adaptor cable and plugged into a USB port on my new computer

Used this and was able to pull all the document files off the dying hard drive and on to the new hard drive I bought from Amazon.

I hooked up all of the cables according to the instructions and was able to access my old hard drive right away.

I swapped my old internal hard drive with the new one and it shows up that way

One thing was new to me: the way files appear on a hard drive separated from its computer

This would not connect to my hard drive at all.

below).In fact, if one has the proper cloning software you're able to clone partitions from one hard drive onto a different type of hard drive as well using these cables

For reference, I had a #7 Hard Drive fail error, and diagnostics and a disc fix did not work with it as Primary.

As long as your hard drive is still operating correctly, this device is perfect for transferring the data off it onto a new computer

I needed to pull info off a laptop hard drive and this thing did the trick with no fuss at all.

Good for using with old hard drives.

Knowing people that use outdated hardware sometimes parts fail this helps get data off a drive if the computer dies and the drive is still good

Worked very well for getting my files off of my old hard drives

Best external hard drive connector I have used

I have a handful of older IDE hard drives that I'm going to give

I used this to power and transfer data from a 3.5" drive and I plan on using this with every new hard drive install I do.

But that is not the fault of this component at all, I saw all the partitions I put onto the hard drive but they were all corrupt.

I have rescued more than one external hard drive using this cable.

As soon as the cable was hooked up to the hard drive and the usb port

These cables were the perfect way to access the files on the hard drive.

Took out the hard drive and used this cable to plug it up to my laptop.

So I tried plugging it into an even older computer that previously ran XP and tried doing a clean XP install with a drive reformat - the install crashed

I decided on this kit over a hard drive dock because of the flexibility it provides in terms of using various types of drives.

The idea then became to use this cable to copy content from back-up CDs and DVDs to these old IDE hard drives and store those in the closet, taking up a fraction of the space, while still preserving the data

My laptop instantly recognized the hard-drive like it was a usb-flash-drive

Nice to retrieve data from older hard drives

Did what I needed it to do and helped me pull files off of 5 different hard drives

My old drive was now showing up as a hard drive for my laptop to read from.

Worked great, and the drive is still working.

I can't say much about the read/write speed or the long-term performance of the adapter, since I only used it to erase drives, but it worked great for my need.

A must have if you're still running older PC's in the house especially if you're old computer dies before you can get the data off the hard drive

I was only interested on recovering that hard drive, and did not needed something to use repeatedly or to permanently have another hard drive attached to my other laptopThis product was inexpensive, easy to use and was able to recover all my data and transfer to an external drive

It's an easy way to transfer data or rescue files from a dead drive.

computer hard drives that they needed information off of after their computers had died.

This C2G product allow me to read the drives, get data from them, erase the drives, or even reuse the drive

and I would recommend going to a computer tech to recover your drive.

I would recommend them as an inexpensive, easy solution to make use of "old" hard drives.

The IDE power adapter has 4 connection points, and one of the four had no metal inside and couldn't power the hard drive

Then it would freeze up and not let me get anything off of the hard drive.

Using as a way to recover information from the hard drives removed from my old computer.

Once you hook it up to an internal hard drive and the power supply, connect with USB to the front of the new computer

I just got this and was able to get all of my data from failing hard drive

The connection was very solid and I didn't have any problems with it "losing" the drive

If you have a collection of old hard drives, this is an invaluable tool for getting into your old archives.

I had the dreaded hard drive message "imminent hard drive failure" and decided to try to clone the drive before it failed rather than reload all the software and Windows 7, upgrade to 8, then to 8.1, and all the upgrades thereafter.

Tried to use an IDE hard drive with this

But, couldn't save the information because the hard drive was dead.

Was easy to plug into my hard drive and my computer recognized my hard drive right

Went with this product in order to salvage data from several internal hard drives

Got this as a quick means of getting some files off hard drives of failed laptops

Great for removing personal files from a corrupted drive, repairing a corrupt OS, removing harmful viruses/wiping drive (if using emergency boot disk isn't an option), recovering a password, etc...

Long version:I had 4 hard drives from 4 computers, ranging from a Dell Inspiron 5150 from 2003, to a Dell laptop model from 2008, to a Asus EEE from 2010, to an HP Pavilion from 2010

Very useful when you are in need to recover files of a hard drive that doesn't boot.

I recovered my internal laptop hard drive using this and an installation of UBUNTU

Easy to use and also works with SSDs which came in handy when it came to clone my laptop hard drive.

In a few words, I hooked up the product to two different hard drives and was able to pull down all the data I needed off of them.

That means I had one bad hard drive in a

I bought this to help me recover data from a Seagate SATA hard drive that I pulled from a Dell Latitude D820 laptop that had died on me.

Turns out the hard drive was fine

They assume that their hard drive can still be salvaged, and that by putting 20 bucks into this product will get them their data.

Transfer speeds to a fast internal SATA drive for me range from ~25MB/second with an IDE drive to ~33MB/second with a SATA drive (about half of what I get between internal SATA drives)... not setting any speed records, but plenty good enough for what your getting: years more life out of those otherwise-dust-collecting old drives

It provides a good, stable connection, and does not seem to 'drop in and out' as some of the cheaper external drive bays, etc

This sure beats opening the computer and connecting the old hard drive

I recently learned about freezing a hard drive in hopes to shrink the disks enough to be able to pull data off.

This thing was the perfect solution to retrieve the data from my old hard drive

It seems like the process is different for each hard drive or device you hook up.

The hard drive received power but no data

if I still had the hard drive because he had realized he scanned a TON of old picture slides from the 50's-80's, indexed them, labeled them, spent countless hours on doing all these things.....guess what

Had a Dell laptop with a hard drive that would no longer boot

I have several old hard drives from old computers.

It makes the old hard drive look like just another drive on the system, and the old machine is going to the dump tomorrow

Works great, better than the docking station type, which would not accommodate my Seagate hard drive.

I bought this product to reformat a 3.5" SATA laptop hard drive

It will also be great for the multitudes of old hard drives we have laying around the house.

I ordered the C2G to view and use files on a hard-drive from an older desktop that was not working anymore

While it did not work to recover my data from a bad hard drive, I was still pleased with it.

We pulled it out of the drawer and plugged it in and were able to save my files before that hard drive totally failed.

I still use this to see whats on old hard drives.

i hooked up one of the hard drives to my router that i am using as a media server and it works great...

Bought this to stroll through all the old data on a decade old IDE hard drive

I keep all my hard drives now

If you need to pull pictures or files from an old hard drive, this is a must have

This cable broke 3 hard drives

This is a excellent item to have when you have a old hard drive and no way to test it or get your files off.you just attach it to your Hard Drive and plug into a USB slot and your off

it has connections for ANY hard drive i have

Not solidly built but best inexpensive way to retrieve data from a hard drive.

I considered alternative products like the hard drive docks, but for me this was a better alternative because it can be easily put away in a desk drawer when not in use

Found one of the hard drives I wanted and attached the cables to the drive and to the laptop and wha-la it worked great.

If the drive had a mechanical or electrical failure, this device won't raise it from the dead

Works as claimed... low cost way to dive into all my saved up old hard drives to find old info or wipe them clean.

Worked everytime I connected to laptop to read SATA defective hard drive.

I wasn't able to retrieve the data from another Seagate IDE hard drive as I think that the hard drive was corrupted/damaged

Now don't get it twisted, this can not be used to boot from a hard drive, but it is absolutely perfect for data transfer

I bought this as a final resort to getting data off my dad's 15 year old hard drive

Fantastic inexpensive product for switching out or troubleshooting hard drives

I have backed up my files from my desktop which I want to throw away and I reformatted my hard drive and erased all the files I transferred to an external drive

Worked well for accessing an old drive.

(One note is that you may have to change the permissions of the data on the external hard drive before you can download it to your computer, but a quick search on google will show you how to do that)

Easy to set up and use, I recovered mucho files and photos from two old hard drives of mine that had been sitting for years.

So I needed someway to get the info off the hard drive onto my new desktop.

(Apricorn couldn't)- Transfer speeds faster (25MB/s) than the Apricorn (15MB/s) with a good 3.5" IDE drive using dd with rdisk parameters

i just opened up the computer, connected the hard drive to the device .. and the device to my laptop.

I removed the external hard drive from it's case and plugged it in with this cord and was able to get all the data from the external drive

ordered this in an attempt to save $120.00 by sending my hardrive into tech support, the instructions were easy to follow and the product worked great, I was able to get all the information off my old hard drive.

Also works well for cloning hard drives (I use Acronis True Image Home version software for this).

I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was packaged well and was able to easily connect my very old Compaq laptop hard drive to my computer

I removed the hard drive and plugged it into the Cables to Go USB adapter

Another old PC just died yesterday (I guess after 10 years running, these old machines deserve to die) and again I used this unit to slave the old drive to the new PC

I have two ATA hard drives that I have used this for and both accessed perfectly.

Especially if you have a box full of old hard drives laying around collecting dust.

Had a mix of hard drives to go through.

But this simple cable works for my old IDE hard drive

Unlike that one which didn't work, this cable is great, easily recognized 3 different hard drives I plugged into it.

First step was to remove the hard drive from the dead system (unplug the computer, open the side, find the disk drive, unplug the cables attached to it, squeeze the handles and slide it out -- it is about 4x6x1.

Anyone who has upgraded a computer or two probably has a fully functional hard drive lying around with data on it

Definitely worth the $20 or so and can be used in the future with other types of hard drives (e.g. SATA).

I use these to dock my old hard drives from my dead desktops

I use "CC Cleaner tools" to wipe and format the hard drives as well as error checks when finished

It was able to do this just fine as well, however when I went to read another SATA hard drive it was unable to detect the hard drive

I went ahead and tried it, my first hard drive (a ST2000DM001) showed up almost instantly and installed the drivers

It includes everything you need to interface to just about any hard drive made in the last 10

It does not see the hard drive.

If you're looking for a more portable, enclosed external drive, get one with a case, but, for the money, this can't be beat!

I was able to extract photos and data from my old hard drives 20x faster than if I tried to start up those old machines.

They were on that hard drive

Tested on hard drive i know did not work so i could get files off of it

Just connect to the hard drive and the computer and Go!

Basically turns any internal IDE or SATA hard drive into an external hard drive.

I opened up the unit, removed the hard drive, saw it was a SATA drive.

Lifesaver for computer geeks who hate to throw away or repurpose hard drives.

2595US Tool Free Aluminum USB 2.0 2.5 - inch SATA Hard Drive

Not much else to say other than just connect it to the hard drive and

I used this to connect to six different SATA and IDE drives to dump them all to one drive through my Mac and also through a PC.

Inside the external drive case was a hard drive with an ide to USB 2 circuit board connected to it

I have used this to move data to various hard drives

Worked perfectly, I was able to transfer all my files from old computer hard drives.

I purchased this item and removed the hard drive from my laptop.

Was able to transfer the contents of 2 hard drives with different connections(1 IDE, 1 SATA)

Then I was able to boot off the new drive, from USB, to confirm the clone worked and was boot-able before installing the hard drive

My one touch Maxtor III external hard drive in which I'd stored all important data including 15 years tax returns no backup, last month suddenly became not recognized by my PC

Presto, it's a hard drive in "My computer, explore".

Or if your laptop itself is physically damaged, and your hard drive is still in tact, these cables come in handy for retrieving important data

so I ordered this and found the drive was fine

It makes the old hard drive look like just another drive on the system, and the old machine is going to the dump tomorrow

Now that's what I call working out of the box!After rebooting to Clonezilla, I backed up a partition from the old Win98 hard drive to an external USB drive.

One of my laptop's hard-drives wouldn't boot up properly.

I was even able to read a hopeless "dead" drive (see below)

i needed to pull data off an old IDE hard drive

So when the cables arrived, I pulled out the hard drive of the bad computer and plugged the cables into it.

The key is to plug in the connector that powers up the hard drive BEFORE you plug it into your USB port.

I used it to hook my laptop hard drive to my desktop and recover files.

I used it to go through all the old hard drives that I have collected over the years

If the hard drive is not detected when using the cable, your only choice will be hooking the drive into and available SATA port on the motherboard so Windows will install the drivers.

Turns out the hard drive was fine

This cable can basically take an internal hard drive and allow you to use it as an external drive

I was able to use my computer's supply to power the hard drive, but it was annoying to have to rip my PC open to do it

Transfer speeds to a fast internal SATA drive for me range from ~25MB/second with an IDE drive to ~33MB/second with a SATA drive (about half of what I get between internal SATA drives)... not setting any speed records, but plenty good enough for what your getting: years more life out of those otherwise-dust-collecting old drives

Makes life east when trying to read other hard and remote drives

I was able to salvage media from multiple old hard drives with this.

Very happy with this product and would recommend it to anyone needing to recover data off a hard drive.

I came across this when trying to find a way to hook up my old hard drive that had movies on it to my TV via usb

This is a must have for times when old drives need to be accessed or if you want a quick and easy connection to hard drives for mass storage

Excellent if you, like me, have a couple of extra hard drives lying around and want a quick way to test them.

i was pretty sure my drive was dead because it wouldn't spin up at all, as if there was no power

The drive did have some bad

I said OK to that and voila, my drive was available and I could get all the data off it.

Used my Daughters Laptop to hook up externaly with product purchased and was able to copy from the laptop drive to my external USB hard drive through windows.

He gave me the hard drive when he decided to ditch his desktop and convert to a laptop

The 2nd hard drive was the same make and model as the

I have 2 laptop hard drives I removed years ago and couldn't wait to access my older files, especially pictures and videos of friends and family

Works exactly as expected on the 8 different hard drives I had lying around (both IDE and SATA)

I bought this to retrieve information from a hard drive when a computer failed

It makes all your old hard drives useful, and costs a lot less than an external drive enclosure

Definitely a lot cheaper than taking it in to a store and having them put the hard drive onto disks.

I simply plugged the power supply into the wall, connected the appropriate plug to the hard drive, then connected the USB hookup

Very happy to get all my info from my antique hard drive.

After the sudden death of our laptop computer, we were faced with the options of either paying someone $75+ to retrieve hard drive data, or to say goodbye to photo and documents.

Used with a Windows 7 machine to recover data from an old hard drive

I hooked my hard drive up as directed and smoke started coming out of the hard drive immediately

Best external hard drive connector I have used

Plug in a hard drive, connect USB to your computer, and you effectively have an external drive.

Never know when you'll need those extra songs you have on an extra hard drive....

The C2G adapter was perfect for recovering the files off the hard drive

A company said my hard drive was dead they wanted to charge me 300.00 to retrieve my data

so I sue these old drives as storage units

My daughter is a semi-professional photographer who had "lost" hundreds of gigabytes of photos that were stuck on some obsolete external drives and one computer hard drive from a dead machine.

Had an old IDE hard drive that I wanted to check and see, and then download, any useful files still on the drive.

I plugged the USB cable into the computer and sure enough, the drive appears in the list of drives, just like the others.

I tested with a good sata internal drive that I removed from my tower.

Removing the hard drive from the Dell was easy, and installing the adapter was even easier

These Cables worked perfect for my laptop hard drive

Update 3/27/2015: Been using this in work as computer repair for a year or two, and it lets you get into hard drives that will not boot, and recover data, as long as the drive is not physically damaged

Drive letter appears on screen but unable to access files from USB drives whether they are 2.5 or 3.5 hard drives

I don't need to have a hard drive enclosure

I bought one over a year ago to look at some hard drives from older towers and a laptop

tried connecting to 7 old hard drives, Mac, Windows, Linux

I wasn't sure my hard drive would fit in a standard SATA enclosure, so I spent a little more and got this, which fit just fine

It doesn't support drives over 2TB.

I was able to recover data from Hard drives that I thought Died 10 years ago.

We had two hard drives removed from HP computers that we wanted to pull material off of, and turn in to "SHTF" type backups

I like that this can accept different size hard drives

I didn't want my hard drive to burn

I have used it to connect some old hard drives to the computer to recover some files from a dead computer hard drive.

Was using DOS XCOPY command to copy data from drive to an external USB hard drive.

Wondered at first as couldn't read the old hard drive when connected to the imac.

Then I introduced the hard drives to my sledge hammer and recycled all 4 desktops.

I've have a number of single-purpose drive adapters that I've both bought and built in my tool collection, but the CablesToGo 30504 has become my go-to adapter to slave up hard drives needing recovery or working with netbooks without CD/DVD drives

The failed drive was

It allowed me to check each hard drive and save important information before reformatting.

this works nice if you have and old hard drive lying around

As an IT consultant, I am frequently pulling hard drives from computers to transfer data, backup, scan for viruses, etc.

Then I went and started copying data off of some older PATA hard drives

The quality is very high, and it is versatile for most situations you will find yourself in if your computer dies and you still have a good hard drive with information you have not backed up yet

Computer recognized the drive as an external hard drive and I was able to pull all of my pictures of my 1 year old son and other important files from the hard drive with no problem

My computer was good in recognizing the hard drive, however I was unsuccessful in retrieving any lost data

I opened the box, that arrived earlier then expected, and hooked up my extra hard drives and my pc found them with no problem.

Although I've had limited experience with these adapters, I can say this chord was able to connect to a failed hard drive when one I borrowed from the IT specialist at work failed to detect the drive

Important: always handle the drive slowly and gingerly and don't give it a whack unless it is definitely not spinning (listen closely) and - most importantly - the drive seems hopeless anyway

unplug the power cord, disconnect the usb cable; then plug the power cord back in, start up the IDE hard drive, THEN plug in the usb end into the computer

I have a stack of hard drives (DATA and older IDE drives, desktop and laptop sizes), this thing really comes in handy and works great.

I have accumulated several IDE hard drives from the past PCs and needed to review theirs content one more last time before they would go into sunset.

I am able to hook my hard drive up to my computer like a usb drive, put my movies and shows on it and then bring it to my living room and play them on my big screen

I just received this product today and tried using it with two (less than a year old) computers (desktop and laptop) both running the same operating system (Windows 7) and it will not read any of the four hard drives I connected it to

If you need files from an old hard drive get this kit it really works.

I couldn't be happier, this allowed me to salvage data from an old hard drive just as I had hoped.

I gave that one to my daughter who needed to extract information from a hard drive from a laptop that died

I had bought a Doc for my hard drives and it only worked on some

Item as described, easy to use, was able to download files from my hard drive to my new computer.

It detected my hard drives instantly.

It helped me fix my old hard drives and I will say it was a great investment.

Power supply shorted out immediately(could have started a fire) and fried my hard drive.

This product works perfectly to access old hard drives and download the data that otherwise would be lost.

I was working on a project in which I was installing an IDE hard drive into my PS2 (two outdated technologies, I know)

Using an empty PC to copy data from salvaged hard drives is a pain, so I searched for a universal alternative

I needed a way to read the hard drive that I had removed from the dead computer.

I just needed to read information off an old IDE drive (1st gen Apple TV hard drive) to clone it.

Had a busted laptop with a good hard drive that held an entire iTunes collection

The 1525 computer has an error message about not reading the hard drive anyways; so, I was not confident I would be able to read info from it.

I tried this device on 3 hard drives

This little kit has saved my butt several times, as well as many friends of mine when we need to get important files off of hard drives from dead computers

I had three IDE hard drives from machines whose motherboards died.

I was able to use this successfully for a 10-year-old hard drive

It worked perfectly for my laptop hard drive.

I was able to toss out four old desktop computers but keep the hard drives

The first drive, worked right off the bat.

I have four other hard drives, and this adapter worked on all of them.

Bought this to use with all the hard drives I have pulled out of old computers

The nice thing now is I can do away with my IDE PCI adapter and get rid of my old hard drives knowing I

I used this to test 3 laptop hard drives to find a good one to use in my

I was able to retrieve data from 2 old hard drives, including an old one from a windows 98 pc

If you have a internal hard drive and would like to transfer the data or look at what is on the drive this is the way to go

but it did what I needed it to do which was get the data off of a laptop hard drive (broken laptop but not broken hard drive) and transfer it to another laptop's hard drive using Windows on that other

Most drives don't spin up 'til you plug in the USB, so don't panic when you turn on the power and the drive doesn't do anything

but my hard drive is going to need to be disassembled to get that data off of it

I took out the hard drive (really easy - just unplugs) and hooked it up to this gadget and plugged it into the USB port on my new HP-G7 computer.

bought it to hook up my old IDE hard drive, worked great, simple plug and play

Most hard drives (especially older ones) need more than this.

You simply hook it up and it works like an external hard-drive, no software or expertise required.

I needed to extract some data off a laptop hard drive that wouldn't boot.

You can power down a hard drive but still leave the whole thing connected to the computer.

Can also use my old hard drive as an external now if needed

The hard drive was IDE, and the motherboard in my new computer did not have any IDE ports

Occasionally, drives have small jumper switches on their business end that need to be tweaked to work properly as an external drive, but none of this is explained by Cables to Go

Old IDE hard drive connected right away, with proper voltage and all

(Note: You may not experience the same results I did with a dropped hard drive

The power adapter fits the power slot on the hard drive very comfortably and the IDE connection itself also fits just as comfortably

After removing the hard drive from the notebook, you can connect two cables to drive, plug in the included power supply, plug the adapter into a USB port on another computer and you have instant access to all files.

this thing makes the hard drive read so i can extract data that I need

Chances are the computer that stopped working failed because of something other than the hard drive.

This hard drive interface device allows you to connect up, and use any of several hard drives through you USB port

Fortunately, I ordered these cables and was able to retrieve all of my data off of the laptop hard drive and was able to transfer it to my external hard drive

I had a few old ide hard drives and was not sure what was on them

I thought I had a dead drive, as it wasn't spinning up when I turned the power on and had it connected to my pc.

Works great every time and have used with various types of hard drives

I have mix of Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital hard drives and with IDE drive that hold only 40GB.

I had several old hard drives around from various retired computers.

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