USB-EASY-TRAN

We bought a new CPU. To transfer from our old to the new one, I ordered this on Amazon.IT WORKED! I followed the easy directions and we were successful! Only drawback is that we had to have Two CPUs plugged AND two monitors to do the transfer so we had to bring in a long extension cord to be able to do it in our home office. There is a video on the manufacturer's website to watch and it helped immensely. Only took about 1/2 hour to do the file transfer. As far as I can see, it transferred all our important files. But I had all my files organized into folders until only two or 3 main folders for us.

The cables worked really well. The data transfer was easy, quick and complete. It was much easier that saving everything to an external drive.

Having never used one of these I was a bit skeptical at first. After a few false starts I finally got it to work, and work it did. I was able to transfer my documents, downloads, screen icons, and music with relative ease. Changing computers is never fun but this made it relatively easy. The only downside is it didn't move my many bookmarks over, but that probably allowed me to clean house a bit.

This worked great! But it transferred my 23,000 files to the One Drive instead of the C drive on my new computer. You have to register online and it seems to work through the internet which is probably why it is lightning fast. But everything went to the OneDrive and Microsoft locked my account for over-use of space. You only get so much space on the OneDrive for free, then you have to pay. I could do nothing. So thankfully I had backed most everything up on an external hard drive and could get it into my new computer from there.I was disappointed that this happened and I followed all the instructions. I saw no options to allow me to select the C drive. It only said transfer from this computer to this other computer. I wasted my money, but it was a learning experience. If you have a lot of data, keep this in mind. You may be able to select files and do it in chunks. I did not know, so I had a disaster. But no harm done in the end. I cleaned out the One Drive and all is well except it was time-consuming to solve.

Worked like a champ. I was shocked. I was a bit skeptical but gave it a try. The software was easy enough to use.

Working in IT as a Level 2 support tech at a global enterprise corporation, data transfer is probably the 2nd most commonly performed task. Just from experience of working in IT on a team of 5-7 techs, it's very critical to get the job done right the first time and to get the job done correct. Most of the migration techs that were contracted for a few months to migrate computers in the evening from XP\Vista to Windows 7, all were instructed to stick to using USMT for transferring user data instead of cables like this one. After the mess that utility has created and the migration "rent-a-tech" guys have left, my whole team has been playing cleanup by performing the data transfer manually. As easy as it sounds, it becomes quiet the tedious chore when it has to be done on hundreds of different user laptops and even more so when they're encrypted with WinTragic's SecureFlop. I ended up writing a VBScript that I put into an HTA application with a few selection options that must be selected according to the job at hand in terms of stating which OS to which OS is the data being transferred. That solution worked excellently in many situations but at random times also failed to work at all. Which brings me to stressing the enormous level of importance this cable has proved to be. I have made myself a mental note to pay attention where I put this cable at the end of the day and immediately put the cable back into my carrying pouch I keep it in after completing the data transfer. After a few times I've used this cable, it became apparent to me that the software that it comes with is completely useless. It requires installation on both of the computers that the data is being transferred between and you have to enter the registration key into the software each time you install it. Not a big deal as you can install it many times using the provided key when transferring from any PC to any PC. But in my case, I can't leave it installed after I'm done and have to uninstall it after completing the transfer. That becomes a PITA if you have to do it multiple times everyday. But the reason I found it to be useless was because it doesn't allow you to access certain folders that it hides in it's interface like Outlook folders where PST files are located as well as the other location where NK2 file resides. So the way I found this cable to be the most effective tool of my trade was simply by plugging it into the new laptop(running Win7), the Windows Easy Transfer utility pops up immediately which will recognize right away that you're using a transfer cable so the next question is Which PC is this? Choose This is my New PC, then it will ask you if you have the utility set up on your old PC and in the answer choices, select the one all the way on the bottom of the list which says My old PC is running Windows 7. Plug the other side into your old computer, same utility will popup so on the first screen hit Next, the next screen select This is My Old PC, click Next and it will scan the old PC quickly which takes at most a couple of minutes if many people have logged into that PC. But this utility gives you the fine grained control of selecting exactly what you want to transfer, which user profiles you want to transfer if you're logged in as an Admin and need to transfer a user's profile with data of a user that's never logged into the new computer yet. Using this cable I was able to completely transfer my supervisor's manager's complete profile, data, mapped printers, favorites and just about everything else useful. She left the old PC with me while still being logged into it, not wanting to reset her password just to set up the new PC without asking since I had no way to contact her, I was able to use this cable to transfer everything to the new PC exactly as she had it on her old PC. The big sigh of relief was when she came back and went to log into her account on the new PC, it immediately logged her in to her account with her exact desktop as it was on her old PC. I highly recommend this cable if you do data transfers a lot on a day to day basis. Plugable Technologies is a solid manufacturer that makes some of the best quality adapters I've ever bought for computers. Never had any issues with the quality of their products so I don't know how good their customer support is to say much about it other than I can imagine it should be as excellent as the quality of their products that have been the most reliable tools I've grown dependent on to get my job done over the last few years.

I was not overly impressed. I didn't see all my files and pictures transfer over from my old computer to my new one. Could be operator error but thought it was pretty much plug and play.

Excellent product. Saved big money. Very simple to use.