Comments on: Quick, Easy Access to Bare Hard Drives

By: Zeninwolf

Zeninwolf — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:22:37 +0000

I run my own computer repair business, and this little device has more than paid for itself. It is useful ANYTIME you need to interface with an IDE or SATA drive directly, not just for the purpose of cloning. Software cleanup or simple surface scan can be done remotely via USB to restore a hopelessly corrupted system to booting order. I had an optical drive go out on a laptop and I needed to reinstall windows. I connected the device to a SATA internal optical drive and was able to boot through USB with my windows disc. My only complaint is that the IDE connecters for that trick get in the way of the power adapter and my SATA optical drive died on me.

By: ken

ken — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:47:38 +0000

This is the easiest drive clone product I have ever used.
this coming from service experience dated back to 1982!
Thanks for a great product.

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:13:22 +0000

Iwill surely be happy if they tell us how this thing will work on windows vista and windows7.
I have one of this device and it doesn’t work on those OS.

Thanks,

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By: Rick Schumacker

Rick Schumacker — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:42:56 +0000

My son’s laptop is toast. Only boot is safe mode that takes 10 minutes and then still zero access to folders. Probably malware. I remembered I had this little tool. I used it to copy data files off his SATA laptop drive, to an old desktop drive, and then reformat the SATA. With the blank drive back in his laptop, it allowed the original install disk to do its magic. Once all software was reinstalled, used this Apricorn DriveWire to restore the data completely from that old desktop drive. I am my son’s hero thank to Apricorn.