I normally don't have much luck with this sort of product but thought for £12 it was worth a try. My notebook had died but I thought the drive with unbacked up data (should be more disciplined) might be OK. When the enclosure arrived I took the drive out of the notebook and it's old sleeve, popped it into the enclosure and plugged in the power and USB connection - worked first time. Recognised immediately by Windows XP The whole job took less than 5mins, it seems ages since something worked so effortlessly. Must back up the data now! Excellent product, also kudos to CDL Micro for first class buying experience.