Apricorn EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL EZ Upgrade Universal Hard Drive Upgrade Kit

List Price: $54.99 Discount Price: $35.78

Features:

• 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

Accessories:

Logitech Alto Connect Notebook Stand

Customer Reviews:

Works the way it should, great [Posted on 2008-07-09]
Sometimes you find a product that does what it says it will do and is easy to use, this is one of those products. Just don't forget to put the adapter on the hard drive like I did and it will be fine.

Easy as Transferring Music - You'll be glad you did it [Posted on 2008-07-14]
Its works Great and it's easy! If you can transfer a music file from one place (hard drive ) to another device ( MP3 player, External hard drive ) you can wheel your way through this in a breeze.
It made going to a 160 GB hard drive on my Dell D630 happen in about 1 hour to boot with new hard drive and all old software working properly. THANKS for the timesaver Apricorn.
I choose the in windows version. First Load the EZ Gig II software, choose which drive to clone to which and set back. It will actually reboot and does the exchange in a non windows based window. Much like Norton disk doctor if you've ever scheduled a surface scan with the fix errors checked.
I'm so glad to have this tool, would use again, and comes with highest recommendation.

solid product, easy to use [Posted on 2008-07-30]
I had a few hiccups, which I though others might want to know about, but it worked like a charm.

FYI, I am PC user. HP Pavillion dv6200, 80GB, Windows Vista.

The process that you go through is to put your new hard drive (purchased separately) in this device and plug it in as a USB device; install the EZ Gig II software; map the partitions on you current drive to partitions on the new drive; run the cloning software and copy data across; then you exchange drives and you're done.

The software takes a crack at allocating the partitions for you, but that didn't work for me as I had a small recovery partition set up on my original drive. The software wanted to allocate all the extra space to the new copy of the recovery partition.

The software allows you to resize your new partitions so I was able to shrink the recovery partition, but for some reason the software didn't allow me to resize my main partition. It was fixed at 69GB.

So I called the free tech support and after a few minutes (5 I think) I spoke with someone who gave me a suggestion on how to fix it. I organized the new drive so that my main partition was at the front of the new drive and the recovery partition was at the back of the new drive, leaving unallocated space between.

I ran the cloning software (it took about 2 hours) and exchanged the hard drives (really quite easy). Once finished, I used Windows disk management utilities and expanded the partition to absorb all the unallocated space. Viola, complete.

Overall, I am extremely pleased with the upgrade and upgrade process.

It worked with older drives, it fails with newer ones [Posted on 2008-08-13]
I used this kit + their EZ Gig 8.1.9 software in the past (2006) to clone the PATA drive in an older Toshiba Satellite laptop. Back then, it worked great and their customer support was responsive and helpful. There was only one minor hiccup: the manual is not clear at all that the target drive must be pre-formatted before use! But it did produce a perfect, bootable clone. Superb for peace of mind and making backups!

Recently, I upgraded my laptop to a new Toshiba Tecra and, naturally, wanted to clone its HDD, too. It has 160 GB SATA Hitachi drive. I got Apricorn's EZ-UP for SATA drives and an identical, blank 160 GB Hitachi. At least I knew to format it beforehand :) I tried cloning with EZ Gig 8.1.9 CD - it didn't work. Apparently, it didn't have the recent USB drivers since it couldn't see the target drive. I sent 3 e-mails to their tech support (also through their website) that were completely ignored. Finally, I found a phone number to one of their Project Managers and asked for help. Thanks to his intervention, the support finally responded with a link to EZ Gig upgrade.

The new EZ Gig version 10.0.5,114 recognized USB, worked, and I got the desired clone... Or so I thought. When I put the clone into the laptop to verify it, it didn't boot. It's visible from running Windows, but it's not bootable. I verified that the target drive was mechanically OK. I reformatted, made it bootable and repeated the cloning. Again, it wasn't booting. I tried and retried all possible options, settings, etc. Apparently, EZ Gig is screwing up the MBR in this case.

After some web searching, I found out I'm not the only one with this problem. Try this search phrase: Apricorn "won't boot" to convince yourself.

It's been 3 weeks since I started and I still cannot achieve my objective. I sent another e-mail to Apricorn's support. So far, I am getting ignored again...

Stressless upgrade [Posted on 2008-08-13]
I upgraded the hard drive in my ancient Compaq Armada E500 laptop from a 12 Gig to a 40 Gig. This package made it an unbelievable smooth and stressless process. Everything went as advertised, software worked great, and now I have a spare external drive as well. I highly recommend this. I was dreading this upgrade, and it turned out to be easy.

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