USB to SATA Converter

Hi,
I would like to upgrade the HDD of a MacBook Pro to a Solid Sate Hybrid Drive (MacBook Pro 5.1 late 2008). Before removing the original internal HDD I would like to install the Mac OS on the new drive, make sure it works ok.
I have looked online and seen different USB to SATA converter cables. Some come with 1 USB port, some with 2 USB ports, and some even with an external power supply. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Pablo

Any cable configuration that recognizes the external HDD will work.
I recommend that you use Disk Utility>Restore or Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the data from your current internal HDD.
Do not for get that the new drive will have to be formatted first in Disk Utility>Erase to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before the cloning.
Ciao.

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XP is not supported externally or if you install Mavericks, and Microsoft is trying their hardest t o get people off that old tin can, rightly so.
Usually Carbon Copy Cloner will. Usally. DU is not really meant to and you had 4 partitions before.
This forum is not for MacBook Pro btw.
Cloning with DU or CCC may do a perfect job but not be bootable if t he interface or case is not.
The EVO is capable of 500MB/sec so even your mid-2010 MBP is not going to get the top performance but should be better once you swap it out than what you were using.

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Have you installed the recent update?
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I have a USB to RS422 converter that was packaged with an IMS MDrive 23 stepper motor controller. I probably should have bought the NI Converter as I
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M&A Explorer seems to like it and will open a VISA session.
I can’t get past the LabView standard VISA Write command. It issues a
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attribute is not defined or supported by the referenced resource" error.
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USB to Parallel Converter

Has anyone had success using any USB to parallel port converter? I've tried 3 different cables including one that supposedly supported the full IEEE-1284 standard, but all of them show up only as a virtual printer port. Is there a way to get access to this port through LabView? Are there any cables/converters out that actually show up as a regular parallel port? I've searched far and wide for one, but had no luck. I searched the boards to see if anyone had done this, but most of the posts were over a year old and had no resolution confirming whether or not a proposed solution worked or not. Thanks in advance for any help,
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LittlemanTAMU wrote:
Has anyone had success using any USB to parallel port converter? I've tried 3 different cables including one that supposedly supported the full IEEE-1284 standard, but all of them show up only as a virtual printer port. Is there a way to get access to this port through LabView? Are there any cables/converters out that actually show up as a regular parallel port? I've searched far and wide for one, but had no luck. I searched the boards to see if anyone had done this, but most of the posts were over a year old and had no resolution confirming whether or not a proposed solution worked or not. Thanks in advance for any help,
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What OS are you using? I had the same problem with XP and LabVIEW 7.0 & &.1. But using the same USB-parallel port converter under WIN2k I was able to access this as a parallel port. In the end my solution was to go to a PCI parallel port which worked fine under both OSes.
Tim Norris
"...and all this science I don't understand
it's just my job five days a week"
Using 6i, 7.0 & 7.1 on Win'98, 2K & XP

Usb to 232 converter and windows 7

Hi All,
Taking a long shot hoping someone has an idea on what the possible solution could be. Hoping I've just missed something obvious. I have a customer who is using the NI usb to 232 converter. The software he is using is emh camcal software. He says the comms worked fine on his XP machine, then he moved it across to a machine with Windows 7. He installed the latest driver, NI serial 3.5.1 I think it is, which supports Windows 7. Now the communication doesn't work. I've got him to run the troubleshooting wizard for ni serial and everything seems fine.
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Hello Jevon,
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+ next to the folder.
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+ next to the folder.
Select your serial interface and expand it to see its ports by clicking the
+ next to its name.
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Communicator.
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http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/E8CAFBC41A7B9BF086256D3C00650011
JimS
Jim St
National Instruments
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