Making the Connection
My cousin Rachel, of Huntington Woods, recently upgraded from a years-old desktop computer to a shiny new notebook – a common move these days, now that notebooks are so affordable (see my May 24 column for thee sub-$1,000 examples).
Of course, the challenge in any computer migration is moving the data from old machine to new. I arrived with one of my favorite tools in hand: the NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter (newertech.com).
The inexpensive kit ($24.95) connects any IDE or SATA hard drive (like the kind that came out of Rachel’s desktop) to a USB post, effectively turning it into an external hard drive.
This it was a simple matter to copy my cousin’s iTunes library, Excel documents and other files to the new machine.  The kit worked like a charm; I highly recommend it.