
Recently I couldn't turn on my laptop and tried everything I could. The laptop was about 5 years old or so and was pretty beat up. So I removed the hard drive so I wouldn't lose thousands of family photos and videos. I received a new laptop and ordered it hoping it would work. Of course it works perfectly. Plugs directly into my new laptop's hard drive and USB port. I gave up all my stuff. It really turns any hard drive into an external hard drive. This is great if you don't want to spend money on a hub. The only problem is that it is very difficult to find what you are looking for on the hard drive. But it has nothing to do with that wire, it's just all windows files. 5 Stars!