The SLOA012 Mountable 2.5 Inch IDE To 3.5 Inch IDE Hard Driver Adapter is transparent to the operating system and does not require any drivers. With this adapter, the computer will identify the 2.5 inch laptop hard disk driver as a standard 40-Pin IDE desktop computer hard disk. As such, you can install any operating systems and 2.5 inch hard disk driver will be bootable in desktop computer For more details on product, Please refer to http://www.papyrus.co.il/mountable_2_5_ide_to_3_5_ide_hard_drive_adapter.htm