I just finished my transfer, took about an hour on a mostly full 20GB hard drive. Everything transferred over just fine.
Despite the silly warning in the manual, I took the old 20GB hard drive off, attached the cable to it, and plugged it into my laptop. It showed up as a USB 2.0 external hard drive with an unknown partition format. Blew that away, reformatted, and now I have a reasonably compact, bus powered, 20GB external hard drive to play with.
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I just finished my transfer, took about an hour on a mostly full 20GB hard drive. Everything transferred over just fine.
Despite the silly warning in the manual, I took the old 20GB hard drive off, attached the cable to it, and plugged it into my laptop. It showed up as a USB 2.0 external hard drive with an unknown partition format. Blew that away, reformatted, and now I have a reasonably compact, bus powered, 20GB external hard drive to play with.
So don't throw that cable away.