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Question: Does this need to be connected to a windows pc  or come with boot cd? I have Windows 7 but can't boot into due to blue screen of death.
Document: Moving from XP to Windows 7 at work and need to upgrade some 40 gb hard drives. This duplicated the hard drive with no problems to a 250 gb hard drives. This product has already paid for itself.
Great product. Copied a variety of hard drives when I upgraded my boot drives. Bit for bit, no issues. All drives booted and stayed windows activated afterwards. I used a free partition manager to match the partition sizes (expand to max drive size) after the upgrade. Haven't used it as USB storage but have used it to plug in drives to test if they would post.
My main computer has a mixture of 2TB and 3TB drives in slide-out mobile racks. I've had no problems cloning any of the three 3TB drives, all partitioned into a single volume each under Windows 7. Once a week, I remove each of the drives and pop them into the Aluratek duplicator and make a copy to one of a pair of identical SATA drives (labeled Backup 1 and Backup 2.)
On Jan 9th 2013 my first project with my brand new AHDDUB100 is to clone a Seagate Barracuda 500Gb drive. Target is another Seagate Barracuda 500Gb drive.Power on, lights come on. Not USB connected.Press START - nothing happensI can read both drives in the dock with USB cord.
Okay I do a lot of IT work and I have a few systems running all the time. I was running a windows 7 system with a 600gb ssd made by Intel it is a very expensive ssd. about 1000 new and 500 to 600 used. I have it filled with 250gb of info and programs. I had a client that needed an Intel 600gb ssd so I purchased this hdd copy device and I copied the 600gb ssd to a 640gb toshiba standard hdd.
Currently updating a Gateway Gaming machine. Ended up doing a clean install on a new WD Raptor 10000 rpm, 64 mb buffer with Win 7 Pro. No problem getting the drive up and running but I needed some files off the old drive when the Carbonite Restore function was going to take days.Took the old drive and cloned it to a WD drive. Placed it in a usb 3.0 case so I now have a portable "old computer files" hard drive to use when I need to.
I found the duplication time quite slow, maybe 2 GB / min which I didn't mind too much since I'm willing to let it run over night. The copy may have been slower than seen by the other reviewer since I copied a 640 GB WD Black drive to a 1 TB WD Blue drive. The 1 TB drive is now a 640 GB drive so you will need a tool like Partition Magic to get it back to 1 TB.Letting the duplication run overnight may not be a good idea.
The Duplicator did what it said it would do and copyed my old dead drive to a new drive that I could boot on my PC.
It's well worth the investment for peace of mind, knowing that you have a backup drive ready if disaster should come your way.
I have to say I was very surprised at how effective this duplicator works. I actually duped a failing notebook drive to a new drive and it worked flawlessly! You can't put a price on that. For the money it is one of the best purchases I have made on diagnostic and recovery hardware to date.
Answer: It's stand alone. It needs no connection to your computer. It will make a clone of your hard drive, just follow instructions. The only time you need to connect to a computer is to read a hard drive. It needs no boot cd.