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Question: Will this work for a transferring a 3.5" IDE HD  in a desktop computer to a SSD? Also, will it transfer a purchased upgrade version of windows 7? TY!
Document: One of the toughest technical challenges I encounter is to transfer EVERYTHING from one drive to another, including all registry settings, system files, hidden files, etc. This product makes the process drop dead simple. However, I am disappointed that it only supports LAPTOP SATA drives. The included software requires that the Apricorn cable be connected to operate. Therefore, this software will not work with a separate multi-connector I own that can handle desktop SATA, 2.5 IDE, or 3.5 IDE drives.One thing I have yet to try is to trick the software by plugging in the Apricorn connector (with no drive attached) to a spare USB port - just so the software can see it.
Purchased an Apricorn Upgrade Kit for SATA 2.5 inch notebook drive. I run an Apple Macbook, model A1181 (which is a few years old) with Snow Leopard OS 10.6.8My concerns revolved mainly around getting my software onto the new SSD drive intact and operational, without the loss of software keys. My machine came preloaded, so I don&#8217;t have access to the keys.Anyway this is what happened&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;...I loaded the CD that came with the upgrade kit into my machine and found a file for Mac users to read.The following is what the file instructed me to do&#8230;.Items 1 &#8211; 9 are the steps I followed.Read on, after these instructions&#8230;..Mac Users - Using &#8216;Disk Utility&#8217; to upgrade your Macintosh hard drive:NOTE: If you are having problems with this method of backing up using Disk Utility, there is an optional alternative: Instead of opening Disk Utility from your Applications folder, you can boot your computer using the OSX Installation CD or DVD 1, then (after your computer is started up from the DVD), click on the 'Installer' menu and select 'Disk Utility...' from there, then go through steps 3-7, restart, and do the rest of the steps outlined here.NOTE: All data on the external drive will be erased.
Used this to upgrade a laptop to SSD. The speed boost from SSD is intense (best investment you can make). This kit lets you complete the transfer from a laptop to the first SSD very easily. Then I tried it on a desktop, but after transferring the data, the computer no longer boots. The copy program does not copy the boot sector, so on a desktop, this leaves your time spent copying and running the softare as a waste - since you have to SYS the drive. I ended up just flattening the desktop, but if your application is upgrading a laptop, the boot sector is not an issue, and this product is excellent.
I purchased the Apricorn SATA Wire Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit last month so that I could clone one of my laptop's two existing 750 GB mechanical HDDs onto a new solid state drive (SSD). The laptop and the Apricorn device I bought support USB 3.0 transfers. The HDD held 170 GB of operating system files and data. It took 29 minutes to clone the drive. Everything that was on the HDD is now on the SSD, including separate audio files left on the desktop. The accompanying software CD also allows the user to adjust existing partitions simply by dragging them with the mouse, although the graphic image that was presented to do that was rather small.
I purchased this upgrade kit about 4 years ago. It took me about 2 hours to finish the HD upgrade. I had to purchase a new kit because the old one would not work on my Laptop (windows 7 Ultimate, dual HDs,). Upgrade to 2 480 Gb Solid State HDs, from 2 750 GB 7200 rpm HDs, it took 20 minutes a HD. CooooooL.
I have used Apricorn cloning products to clone three laptop drives over the years, and the product worked flawlessly with the first two upgrades. This review describes configuration changes I had to make to get the third upgrade to work.For this upgrade, I purchased this product to upgrade the original 2.5" SATA hard drive on my Dell Latitude D630 laptop. The product ultimately worked flawlessly, but not using the default settings. The proper settings were non-trivial to arrive at. Hence, I'm writing this review in the hope of saving others time.System configuration:* Dell Latitude D630* Original hard drive: 80GB 5400RPM SATA* New hard drive 320GB 7200RPM SATA* Windows 7 Professional 32-bitThe Dell Latitude D630 ships with a 2GB recovery partition, with the remainder of the space used for normal computing.
It's included with every version from 7 and up. It's fast. It's accurate. I've cloned dozens of system images with it without every encountering a problem. (Let me point out one caveat -- the destination disk has to be at least as large as the source partition, otherwise it won't work.) You can transfer a typical Windows image to a new disk in under a half hour. The ONLY limitation of this process is that you need an intermediate disk to store the image. The Apricorn software will (allegedly) create a new disk directly.One other thing I should point out if you intend to use this backup approach -- if you need to use a USB extension, for instance where all the USB 3 ports are on the back and they're hard to get to, you MUST buy an extension that's labeled for USB 3.
You can do this in one of two ways: (1) with your computer unplugged, you can connect one of your computer's SATA power supply connectors to the drive; or (2) you can connect a SATA power supply from a kit like theSABRENT USB 3.0 TO SATA/IDE 2.5/3.5/5.25-INCH Hard Drive Converter With Power Supply & LED Activity Lights (USB-DSC8). I used theNSI LK-13526 7-pin internal SATA Male to SATA Female Extension cable - 7 pin SATA M/F - 20 inch (50 cm)to connect the Apricorn "SATA wire" adapter to the 3.5-inch drive's data port.
I followed the advice of M Jenson, using the manual settings in the software to set the partition sizes. The cable worked without problem. The software also did exactly what I wanted. I upgraded my son's 5 year old Dell Vostro 1700 from a 160 gb drive to a Samsung 830 256 gb SSD. It tool about an hour in total tonight. I'll provide a review on the Samsung in a few months. So far, it runs very fast (windows 7 experience index for the hard disc zoomed from 4.7 to 6.3).
I have tried 3 different cloning software programs and this is the only one that worked perfectly with my new SSD. I simply cloned my old hard drive onto the new SSD and it worked perfectly the first time. I only used the CD to link me quickly to the Apricom website and the latest version of the software. I updated the firmware with the Sandisk Toolkit (for the SSD) and the Windows Experience Index went from 5.9 with my old hard drive to 7.6 with the new Sandisk Ultra Plus SSD.
Answer: Yes to both. I transferred my  Windows 7 from an older large HDD to a fancy new laptop size SSD. It was perfect. You do need to tell it how to partition the drive. My SSD was larger and initially it wanted to make two partitions. I instructed it to make one larger drive. Once the transfer was complete I noticed that Windows did not show it had ever been updated. No big deal. The updates were there it just didn't know that. I did an update and all was fine. That took about 30 seconds. There is no need to re-register anything. This is one of the few products that works as good or better than advertised. Just make sure that you are going to a SATA SSD. To old HDD can be anything as the hook up is USB to SATA. Nothing else matters.