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"This adapter worked as advertised. I bought two of them and was able to clone my Western Digital drives for my laptop in a desk top with no problems. Excellent little toy for the "Geek" on the go."

Worked perfectly. Was able to copy data off one laptop drive to another using a desktop. Highly recommended.

Fantastic purchase - just what I needed when my laptop wouldn't boot any more. I just hooked this up to the spare IDE slot on my desktop, powered up, and there was a new drive with all my files on it. The hardest thing about any of this was figuring out how to unscrew the drive out of the laptop chassis - they bolt those things in pretty well.

This adapter works perfectly. I have had trouble with HP laptops. 3 separate laptops and 7 times needing hardware repair. This last time my laptops graphics card stopped showing a signal. I knew the hard drive was still working. I did not want to take it to a repair service like Geek Squad. This cable just let me plug the laptops hard drive directly into the desktop's IDE cable. I copied my files that I would have lost and saved the expense of repair.

Not being a laptop expert I was surprised to learn that the hard drive would not interface with my IDE cable in my desktop. I wanted to load a newer operating system in my laptop but the unit was so old it had no CD drive. Enter the adapter here and now I was able to do what I needed to thanks to a very inexpensive part. I'm happy with it.