Most people do not have tools for their computers, but I propose everyone should have this one. You might not know from looking at it, but the Apricorn DriveWire USB 2.0 is a universal hard-drive to USB adapter.
The reason you need it is that at some point if you own a computer, of any make or brand, it will die, or the hard-drive will start acting up, and this little dongle will allow you to either hook your old hard-drive up to you new computer or clone you current hard-drive to upgrade painlessly.
If you can use a screw driver and put a CD in to the CD-ROM drive you can make this thing work. I have used it at least a dozen times, and I am sure that I will use it again in the future. Don’t have a CD-ROM anymore? That is okay you can download the software from their website and put it on a USB stick.
These things have got me out of jams more then once, and for the low price of about $35 why would you not get one? Unless you like that thought of loosing all you data on your hard-drive. Here is a link to Amazon for you.
I own one of these. I only have used it once, but when I did it was super useful.
You may not have to use it a lot, but it is great when you need it!
We have another brand of these at Lloyd’s Electronics in Lynden that works just as well, I can attest to their hardiness.
Good to know!