Customer Reviews

Minispy SATA

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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.

The PCI card that actually plugs into the computer seems okay, but the part that attaches to the Xbox hard drive is garbage. A small, easily-misinterpreted diagram on the side is the closest thing we get to an instruction. The piece is simply a casing over a small circuit board - poorly secured at that.

Finally, the included drivers are only from Windows 98 and 2000. My XP-running machine could not recognize the hardware to save its life, and even my Vista platform was having issues with it.

Avoid the headaches I had and bypass this product in favor of a USB-compatible transfer kit.

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.

The Talismoon "minispy SATA" transfer adapter seems to be a nice solution for connecting your 360 HDD to your PC. Wrong. When I took this product out of it's box, the adapter itself literally fell apart in my hand. It is made from very cheap plastic that clicks together over a small piece of circuit board.

The "danger" comes from it's female connection port. With a very poor warning label that is not easily understood (just a very tiny picture with an exclamation mark next to it)it is not likely that someone will know which direction to properly face the HDD when connection it. If you connect it the wrong way, you will fry your 360 HDD (literally). You will see smoking due to a cross-threaded power circuit. I almost 'caused an electrical fire and had to have my HDD replaced. This was not worth that kind of trouble...

It doesn't work at all. It's a waste of time and MONEY!!! Don't buy it. Instructions aren't clear and it almost burned my USB port!!!

If you are looking for a cable to transfer memory form one Xbox 360 hard drive direct to another this cable IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!

when i bought Talismoon "Minispy SATA" Xbox 360 Hard Drive Data Transfer Adapter Kit i pluged it into the pc hopping it will work i waited 1 min the pc recognized it and then ''Pop'' the conecter got damaged !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WOULD RATE THIS 1/10 THIS IS THE Worst item i bought.