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Tarfumes.com - Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL EZ Upgrade Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit
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List Price: $54.99
Our Price: $38.81
Your Save: $ 16.18 ( 29% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Apricorn Mass Storage
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: APRICORN MASS STORAGE
EAN: 0708326910460
Feature: USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure for Windows 2000 and XP
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Label: Apricorn Mass Storage
Manufacturer: Apricorn Mass Storage
Model: EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL
Publisher: Apricorn Mass Storage
Studio: Apricorn Mass Storage
Warranty: 3 years warranty
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Features
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USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure for Windows 2000 and XP
Backup software compresses data to less than 1/2 its original size
Password protection for backup images
Includes data transfer utility for Windows, USB aux power cable, USB cable, and quick start guide
3-year limited warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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EZ Upgrade Universal kit makes upgrading your notebook your PATA/IDE or SATA hard drive as easy at 1-2-3. This innovative notebook hard drive upgrade kit includes universal USB 2.0 enclosure that will work with both PATA/IDE or SATA hard drives and the Apricorn Upgrade Suite software allowing you to painlessly transfer all the data from an old hard drive to a new hard drive in three easy steps.First, slide the new hard drive into the EZ Upgrade enclosure, using the included USB cable; connect the EZ Upgrade to the notebook's USB port. Next, run the Windows or Mac cloning software using the bootable CD and follow the prompts. Finally, install the new hard drive into the notebook, complete with operating system, favorites and all your files and folders just the way you like them.Once the new drive is installed, the old drive can be used in EZ Upgrade's Hi-Speed USB 2.0 enclosure for external storage. When used with Apricorn's Upgrade Suite EZ Gig II backup software, the external drive becomes a state-of-the-art backup solution.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: HARD DRIVE
Comment: The hard drive works great and the EZ Upgrade Kit made it a breeze to copy all my files from one drive to another. I would recommend this product it was very easy to use.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Nice idea, but beware if you have a Dell with Media Direct!
Comment: This is a great item that should have made upgrading my notebook's hard drive really easy. However, there is a known issue with this product on a Dell computer with Media Direct. I WISH THIS HAD BEEN NOTED IN THE DIRECTIONS! The problem can be avoided just by not copying one particular file. However, if you run through the whole installation without the extra steps you will get the blue screen of death and the upgrade doesn't work.
Once I called technical support, they sent me an email that explained how to fix the problem. It took me a lot of extra time to "fix" what I could have avoided in the first place.
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In summary, this product did work, and I was able to use it to upgrade my hard drive. However, I wish I had been told before hand that it needed and extra step to work with my Dell computer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Piece of cake
Comment: It was very easy to replace my old 20Gb HDD with a new 120Gb drive.
For those of you who are not wireheads, let me suggest a couple of things before you buy anything:
1) Make sure you know what kind of hard drive you need to buy to replace the existing drive (e.g., SATA vs. EIDE, physical dimensions). It wouldn't hurt to look up the specs of the existing hard drive on the manufacturer's website so as to buy a compatible HDD.
2) Make sure you have your laptop manufacturer's instructions for replacing the hard drive in hand.
Good luck.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast, easy and user friendly!
Comment: Upgrading a laptop hard drive could not have been made easier! I had an IBM T41 ThinkPad with a 40GB internal hard drive that I wanted to migrate to a 160GB drive. I had tried to do it with the software provided by IBM/Lenovo, Software Rescue and Recovery, and ran into multiple difficulties with it. I spent hours upgrading to the most recent release, etc. With this product it was, literally, completely painless. It took 5 minutes of my time and about 2 hours of elapsed time to pull it off. I installed the new drive in the hard drive case (15 seconds), plugged it into a USB port and installed the software. The software makes it impossible to mess things up. You simply start the process of "cloning" your existing hard drive and come back a couple of hours later when the process is finished. Then, you pop the new drive out of the case, remove the existing hard drive and replace it with the cloned drive. And - voilla - everything looks the same, but you have all this additional hard drive space, and your laptop is much faster. One last benefit is that you could use your old drive as a USB drive in the case used for the cloning if so desired!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flawless execution
Comment: It took a long time for 80 Gb to transfer to my new drive, but laptop drives are 5400 RPM so you can't expect much more. Plus, my "old" drive was massively fragmented. This product does more than just cloning hard drives, but it clones hard drives perfectly. This is an excellent product that works very, very simply and reliably. Negative reviews are often because the reviewer made errors and is looking to blame the product. Keep that in mind. This thing worked great, and after the process you have a very nice, sturdy internal drive caddy that can be used as an external drive, and will also serve to backup or clone many more SATA or PATA drives.
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