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USB 2.0 to IDE Adaptor

only £19.99

Order Code: A25AT
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Product Features


  • Save money on expensive external drives - use an internal CD-RW, DVD or HDD outside your PC
  • USB connection to high-speed IDE adaptor
  • Power supply provided to power any device
  • USB 2.0 high-speed (480 Mbit and full speed 12Mbit) support
  • Supports various kinds of ATA/ATAPI based mass storage device port
  • Supplied with USB 2.0 IDE adaptor, power cord, power supply, CD driver and user manual

The USB 2.0 to IDE adaptor implements a bridge between one USB port and one ATA or ATAPI based mass storage device port. Compliant with both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1



A RAR file containing the product drivers can be found in the download centre on this product page


Technical Specification

    Interface: USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 to 40 pins ATA/ATAPI
    Transfer Speed: Full-speed 12Mbps and high-speed 480Mbps
    Connectors: One 1m USB A type cable, one 1.3 ohm self powered DC jack, one 4-P power cable for standard HDD/CD-ROM's power unit
    Indicators: One red powered LED and one green active LED
    Power Source: External power adapter (DC12V1.5A)
    Switch: One power ON/OFF switch
    Operating temperature: 0 deg C-50 deg C
    Stock temperature: -20 deg C - 60 deg C
    Humidity: 0%-80% RH, non-condensing
    Unit Dimension: 66(L), 55(W), 22(H) 28(H of arc) mm
    Certifications: FCC Class B, CE, BSMI
Applications
    ATA/ATAPI interface drives such as 2.5", 3.5" HDD and CD-ROM, CD RW, DVD ROM, DVD RW devices. (2.5" HDD need a 40 pin to 44 pin convertor)
Contents
    Easy IDE adapter
    Switching power adapter
    Driver Disk with manual
    Grounding screw
    2.5" converter cable
OS Supported
    Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
    Mac OS.8.6 or higher


Download Centre - Technical, Firmware and Information
A25AT driver.rar
Bulk Prices Quantity Price including VAT :
1 £19.99
5 £17.61
10 £16.63
25 £15.65
100 £14.67
Customer Reviews on this Product
MICHAEL (29/09/2009)

Very pleased with the ide connector,simple and quick to connect and use. Copying files from my old hard drive much easier and quicker than connecting two computers together. Also works well with my old DVD drive for loading and copying to new machine.


Frequently Asked Questions

Q- Could this devise be used to install an OS by connecting a dvd drive? - simon

Answer- That would depend upon the PCs ability to boot via USB but yes this device would support the use of optical drives.

Q- Can I use this to read the HD from my old PC and recover my data from it? The old HD was XP and I need to read it from Vista. - Peter Clark

Answer- Yes the product does support that.

Q- is it possible to use more than one of these adapters to enable use of a HDD and a DVD Drive ? - Kevin, L'borough

Answer- Yes the product does support that.

Q- If you had a damaged laptop, could this be used to transfer data from laptop hard drive to a PC? - Marc

Answer- Yes the product does support that.

Q- If the IDE/ATA drive contains more than one partition, will they both be accessible through this device? - Roger Ford

Answer- yes the product does support that

Q- USB 2.0 to IDE Adaptor i know i can use this to access the drive in winodws but i have a netbook and was wouldering if i can use it to boot from usb as i need to reinstall the software on my netbook due to a virus deleteing the mbr can you help - robert

Answer- Yes the product does support that.

Q- can i virus-scan a HD connected to my laptop with this cable? - farra

Answer- Yes the drive appears as the next available drive letter as a removable drive and would be scanned by the software.

Q- - Will this component enable me to read the data on my OLD pc's hard drive? (i.e. once I connect one end of the component to the old pc's hard drive and the other end to the laptop's usb port) - Will this component enable me to transfer the data from the OLD pc's hard drive (to either my new laptop computer or to an external hard drive) - bds09

Answer- Assuming the drive from the old PC is not damaged or password protected/encrypted then yes it should be fine for said purpose.

Q- Is there a product similar to this, for use with floppy cable instead of IDE ie. USB to Floppy -

Answer- I am afraid not

Q- Just to let you know that even though it doesn't say it on the box, this works with Windows 7. Don't use the driver CD, just let Win 7 install it. - Andy

Answer- Many thanks for the feedback


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