Minispy SATA

Good for backing up your 360 hard drive. Allows you to restore drive if using a new 360 hard drive of same size. Would not suggest for file transfer or tampering with hard drive files. 360Explorer a little confusing. XP system will see drive, but identified as unkown partition so it wont assign it a drive letter. 360Explorer wont see it unless you have disk management open identifing it. Otherwise works well.

The first thing you will notice when taking this product out of the box is how cheap the whole lot is. It's in a box that isn't even sealed, and all the components are lying in a cheap plastic tray in the box. There's a mini CD with drivers (none of which are for this particular product) and a readme, but the readme is poorly formatted (not even word-wrapped so you have to continue to scroll horizontally to read it), uninformative and contains a section of unintelligible gibberish at the bottom (I mean that - it's a random series of letters and symbols that takes up a few paragraphs' worth of space).

There's not even an instruction manual, just a link for online directions that takes you to a product page that has an option to buy the adapter or troubleshooting. The troubleshooting would have been helpful if it had installation tips, but the only two items are for problems after the install has been completed.

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I followed the directions to a "T". After only one minute connected to my PC the Talismoon Minispy SATA Xbox 360 hard Drive Data Transfer Adapter Kit caught on FIRE. It burned the connector box and fried the adapter port on my 360 HDD Shell. I didn't even have the chance to see if I could read any of the files from my 360 HDD. Currently unable to play 360. I would not recommend this product to anyone.