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| Thread ID: 55861 | 2005-03-21 08:53:00 | Data transfer advice plz | MrWhite (7662) | Press F1 |
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| 336467 | 2005-03-21 08:53:00 | Hey yall, I just bought a new PC, and it's running a single SATA hard drive. My recently deceased PC that prompted the purchase, has 2 IDE hard drives within, containing plently of files that I'd like to retrieve. What would be the easiest method to make the data transfer from the IDE to the SATA? Of course, the target hard drive has a IDE compatible mobo, as I think most SATA-able mobos do. I'm hoping to be able to just hook up the IDE drive to the new mobo, and be sure that the SATA drive is the one the PC looks to boot from, but I'd love some reinforcement on that hope before going through with it - lol Any ideas/tips/advice are most welcome. Thx again, Mr White |
MrWhite (7662) | ||
| 336468 | 2005-03-21 09:08:00 | Just put the 2 ide hard drives on the secondary ide as master and slave. (Or even Primary ide master and slave), if there's nothing on the primary ide connection now. (If your PC case, can have more than 1 hard drive). Change the jumpers on the back of these hard drives (one to master, one to slave). And then go into the BIOS, and put secondary (or primary) ide master and slave on AUTO. Save the BIOS settings. Reboot. The SATA will still boot fine. (Just make sure the SATA is the bootdisk in BIOS). Then u can get data off these 2 hdd's or just keep them there to use as backup hard drives. However, if you want to copy programs that have been installed on one of these 2 hard drives, to the SATA. Not a good idea. You'll have to reinstall whatever the program is....onto the SATA. BUT if u want to copy things like email addresses, word documents etc that should work fine. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 336469 | 2005-03-21 09:09:00 | Yup, just hook up the IDE drives, make sure the SATA drive is your boot device in BIOS... and hopefully voila :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 336470 | 2005-03-21 09:15:00 | I guess worst case scenario, I end up ordering one of these. They go for $23 + s/h. www.addonics.com - Mr White |
MrWhite (7662) | ||
| 336471 | 2005-03-21 10:16:00 | Thanks guys, just dropped them in, and everything worked out great . Doing a full out virus scan on the IDE drives before they start swappin digital fluids and yuck . . . :yuck: Anywho, thx for the helping me avoid the $23 purchase ;) Peace out, - Mr White |
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