Why I buy this one ?
- 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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What our customer's say!

"Did the job-Just a little tricky...", I just got the Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL EZ Upgrade Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit as a Christmas present. I used it to upgrade a 30GB Hitachi drive in my Dell Latitude C640 to a 160GB Seagate. I was glad I read the reviews for some of the feedback because I had a couple of issues, but a day later, it's like I have a new computer. My laptop has only a 1.1 USB port, so it was slow going (6 hours) as others mentioned, but I didn't have to use an external power supply. I do strongly recommend that you go to the Apricorn website and read the detailed documentation. I used the boot from CD method. I did have the error message afterwards when removing a flash drive. Here's how to fix it:
1. Go to Device Manager
2. Under View, select Show hidden devices
3. Scroll down to Storage Volumes and expand
4. For all Generic volumes listed, right-click and select Update driver
5. Let Windows find the driver, you may or may not need to reboot

When you're done, the error goes away. Not too complex, but I wouldn't attempt this whole thing unless you're somewhat savvy with computers.

Overall, I still gave a rating of 5 stars because the process worked very well, and I read that other cloning software had the same issue with the error message afterward, so I'm thinking that's a general quirk with cloning a drive with XP. After it's all said and done, I've got a lot more storage and a blazing fast (comparitively) laptop. Good product.

"easy upgrade for Dell Inspiron 600m", The Apricon EZ Upgrade kit worked flawlessly to upgrade the disk in a Dell Inspiron 600m with Windows XP. Cloning the Dell's 60GB disk to a new 250GB Western Digital WD2500BEVE took about an hour for copying, and a few more minutes to swap the drives. If you upgrade this or similar Dells, you will need to remove the pin adapter from the old drive and put it onto the new drive before inserting the new drive in the Dell drive caddy.

"It works.", The cloning software works and is easy to use. The drive enclosure is very well made and can be used as a nice external drive enclosure when not cloning hard drives. I saved a lot of money by swapping hard drives myself rather than using a shop. Highly recommended.

"Works like a Champ...", I got the Apricorn EZ-UP "Clone Kit" to upgrade my laptop.
Wow!! This product worked like a champ. It also saved my hide when I tried to mess with partitions on the laptop (went from 40GB to 320GB) to put up Ubuntu Linux (while saving the existing Rescue and Recovery partitions and the MBR) and blew up the O/S (Windoze XP pro). Re-partitioned, and reused the product and viola -- good disk.
The product is extremely well documented. This was a totally painless upgrade, very straight forward and most importantly -- it worked first time out of the box!!! I would recommend this product for any laptop HD upgrade!!!!!!

"A Godsend", My hard drive was about dead, and I couldn't boot into windows. I bought a new drive, under the assumption (duh!) that my Dell laptop had 2 hard drive slots...like most. My plan was to slave the new one and use freeware to clone. Couldn't do that. So, I bought this and it made the whole process unbelievably simple, and fast. Completely worth the money. I highly recommend it.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Saves old notebooks", I purchased to increase the hard drive capacity of a Dell 8200 bought in 2001. And it worked but only after I purchased a power adapter from Apricorn. My 8200 USB 1.1 port could not handle the power demand of the Western Digital hard drive. And that port was slooowww. It took 15 hours to clone the 60 GB OEM drive. But both limitations were weaknesses of this old PC so the Apricorn earned the 5 stars. The Apricorn was extraordinarily easy to use. I changed notebook boot order so it booted from the Apricorn CD. Then I followed the instructions step by step. I was able to clone my old drive which had been split into two partitions onto the new 250 GB drive with two partitions--one for OS and programs and one for data. After cloning, I returned the boot order to it original order.
By the way, the Apricorn Univeral hard drive upgrade kit works with both SATA and PATA drives.

"BEWARE of PITFALLS ", This kit offers an easy way to replace the hardrive in a laptop, but there are a few pitfalls that one needs to watch out. Apricorn offers little or no help to the users.

(1) Many people with pre-XP system have trouble because they're not equipped with USB 2.0 ports. The old USB 1.1 ports are about 40 times slower and it also doesn't supply enough power to run many external drives. So some people complain about the disk copying process take forever and some couldn't get the drive to respond at all. The power problem can be solved by adding an external power supply that plugs into the enclusure. The data rate problem can be solved by getting a PC card that provide USB 2.0 ports on the old machines.

(2) Many users, including myself, experienced a problem using the newly cloned drive: an error message upon removal an USB flash drive or hardrive. After getting no help from Apricorn, I did find a solution on the web. It is caused by some bugs in the cloning software, but it's unclear why it happens to some people and not all. If you have this problem, see message #69 at this URL for the fix.
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I deducted 2 stars in the rating because (1) the cloning bug has been known for at least 18 months but it's still in the kit I bought 2 weeks ago; (2) it is misleading to advertise the kit for older systems running Win2000 without telling people some extra parts are needed, e.g., an extra power module or a USB 2.0 PC card. For people who don't run into these problems, it's a 5-star product. For those who do, it's a 1-star.

"Perfect!", I used this for my toshiba laptop to swap my hard drive. Just wanted to clone everything. It worked PERFECT the first try. Just like they say Easy as: 1,2,3!

"Recommended, with an asterisk", I'm pretty happy with this product. It did a great job of imaging my Thinkpad hard drive so that I could upgrade to a newer, larger, quieter ;) drive.

But it comes with two warnings:

(1) You can't use it to clone a dual-boot Macbook, because the Windows-side software won't proceed when it sees that one partition (the OS X HFS+ partition) is in a format it can't handle;

(2) It works poorly with Macbooks in general, or at least my Macbook. This may be an Apple problem (underengineered USB port), but if you own a Macbook, look elsewhere.

Five stars because upgrading my Thinkpad with this item was a breeze, and tech support at Apricorn eventually explained the problem.


"Solid program and case", Easy setup and install. The one thing I didn't know is that the CD is a bootable cd and you can copy that way as well, which was a bonus. The down side to using the program through the bootable CD is that you can't specify the new partitions without losing space as unpartitioned. Simple drive enclosure that allows either EIDE or SATA drives simply by flipping the drive around with connectors on either side. USB powered or can be powered with an AC Adapter (not supplied though). Although I haven't tested it yet, I think the software will allow you to use any USB externally enclosed drive, so you could clone a 3.5" as well.
All told, a solid program with a well built drive enclosure and usb cable.