Product Description

The Cables To Go USB 2.0 Vista-Compatible Easy Transfer Cable provides a hassle-free way to transfer all of your files from your older Windows XP system to the new Windows Vista system. A simple wizard-driven program walks you through a few simple steps, enabling you to transfer your files (such as program data files, photos, music, videos), e-mails, and settings from your old system to your new Vista system in no time. This transfer cable is also able to transfer data between two XP or two Vista systems.

Product Details

• Color: Silver
• Brand: Cables To Go
• Model: 39977
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 2.00" w x 2.00" l, 3.00 pounds
• Networking: Hi-Speed USB

Features

• Provides an easy way to transfer files from Windows XP versions to the new Vista platform or to transfer files between two XP or two Vista computers
• Transfers data at speeds up to 480Mbps via USB 2.0 connectivity
• Full compliance with USB Specification Revision 1.1 & 2.0
• No external power is required; supported by bus power from either USB port
• Approximately 6 feet in total length

Customer Reviews

Can I rate this ZERO stars?
This is absolutely the worst, time-wasting piece of junk I've ever tried...twice. I can read and follow directions with the best of 'em, but when the program CD said it had a problem with the AUTORUN.INF file and stalled, over and over again, I figured it was a software glitch. Returned the first set of CD and cable. Two days later: new set of CD and cable arrives; guess what? Same problem. This time I'm smarter and DON'T SPEND A WHOLE DAY THINKING IT'S MY PROBLEM AND I CAN GET IT TO WORK! This time I discover that the darn thing just plain DOESN'T WORK and I am sticking it back in the box and returning it. What a monstrous waste of time!!! I am computer literate, can read and follow directions and can even troubleshoot when required, but this piece of junk just doesn't work. Save your money; invest in an external drive and just move your files that way (my next adventure). I agree with another reviewer: this should come with a troubleshooting guide or, at the very least, its own little trash bag. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!

Don't waste your time or money
This may be a Windows limitation or a Cables to Go limitation, I don't know but it renders the cable almost useless. If for any reason it cannot transfer a single file, rather than bypass the file and continue, while logging all such failures as any decent program would, instead it just stops transferring files altogether.

Having read some of the reviews regarding how slow the process is, I set it up to transfer overnight. However, about 8% into the transfer it met a file (a simple photo file) it couldn't handle. Thus in the morning it was still stuck at 8%.

The PC with Vista gives me the option to continue and bypass the file and resume the transfer(which again should be automatic) but the PC with XP won't restart the transfer nor does it give me the option. The only option on the XP machine is to exit and start over.

Each time you can determine what did get transferred and eliminate those major folders on the next attempt. However, the file selection does not allow you to drill down into the folders to say, just save a game data file with your personal settings. Instead you have to transfer over the main folders, program files and all. This obviously adds a lot of time to the process and you end up with a lot of useless files on the new PC.

I finally ended up doing it old school, transferring files a few folders at a time with a geek stick. But it works and I'm transferring only the files I need.

It Worked Great
We purchased this product to transfer all files from a Gateway with XP to a new HP with Vista. It worked perfect and trasnferred 60Gigs in 2 hours. The only problem we ran into was when we initially tried to transfer, some processes were running in the background and an error would come up saying that the PC we were transferring to did not have enough memory. It took us awhile to figure out what the issue was. Once we stopped all processes from running it worked perfect. The only thing I would recommend for this product would be that it come with a troubleshooting guide. If you are not very technical you might have a hard time figuring out certain errrors.