Upgrading and transferring data from a notebook's internal hard drive to a second drive is child's play with Apricorn's EZ Upgrade SATA, a Serial ATA hard-drive upgrade kit. The kit ships with all the tools you need to successfully install a notebook hard drive: a USB 2.0 enclosure, a USB cable, a PS/2 auxiliary power cable for backup power, and proprietary upgrade and recovery software.
The kit lets you upgrade a notebook hard drive in three steps, according to Apricorn spokesperson Jennifer Olson. First, slide the new hard drive into an EZ Upgrade enclosure, and connect the cable to the notebook's USB port (which accommodates the old hard drive). Then boot the machine with Apricorn's EZ Gig II Upgrade and Disaster Recovery Software, which begins the drive-cloning process. Finally, remove the old drive from the notebook and replace it with the new, cloned drive. Voila--the fresh drive is installed and ready to work.
Afterward you can use the old drive as a backup device.
The kit shipped in June and is available for the reasonable price of $49. It works only with Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.
