Quick answer required Slaving IDE to SATA?

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I feel I should know the answer to this, but I don't. I have a new system
arriving tomorrow with three SATA drives (2x75GB Raptors and 1x250GB WD). I
have a lot of data on a 200GB WDC that will take me forever to back up (and
I really don't have the time, inclination, nor the DVDs!) Can I slave it to
the 250 and have Windows (XP) pick it up correctly? I am also losing this
one tomorrow morning so I need to know ASAP.

Someone tell me one way or t'other.


Thanks
 
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
I feel I should know the answer to this, but I don't. I have a new system
arriving tomorrow with three SATA drives (2x75GB Raptors and 1x250GB WD). I
have a lot of data on a 200GB WDC that will take me forever to back up (and
I really don't have the time, inclination, nor the DVDs!) Can I slave it to
the 250 and have Windows (XP) pick it up correctly? I am also losing this
one tomorrow morning so I need to know ASAP.

Someone tell me one way or t'other.


Thanks
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Yeah you should be able to...no problem. Just hook your old drive up to the
IDE. Everything hsould auto detect and work fine. I assume you are raiding
the three SATA drives? Just make sure your sys is set to boot off them
instead of your old one.
 
Chris said:
Yeah you should be able to...no problem. Just hook your old drive up
to the IDE. Everything hsould auto detect and work fine. I assume
you are raiding the three SATA drives? Just make sure your sys is
set to boot off them instead of your old one.
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I assume so, I'm not building it (obviously) it's being built by a friend of
mine who has his own business. The board is an ASUS SK8N (it's an FX-53
based system) - full specs (of board) here
http://www.chillblast.com/customer/product.php?productid=300. It's booting
from one of the Raptors (first port) Plextor 708A and a Samsung combi on the
second, the 250GB on the first RAID, and I want to slave the 200GB Caviar to
that drive.

I just want an easy life (let's face it - who doesn't?!)
 
There is no master or slave with SATA. Connect the old drive to one of the IDE ports. The new motherboard should have two parallel IDE ports. If they are both used by optical devices, put the optical devices on one port and the hard drive on the other.
I feel I should know the answer to this, but I don't. I have a new system
arriving tomorrow with three SATA drives (2x75GB Raptors and 1x250GB WD). I
have a lot of data on a 200GB WDC that will take me forever to back up (and
I really don't have the time, inclination, nor the DVDs!) Can I slave it to
the 250 and have Windows (XP) pick it up correctly? I am also losing this
one tomorrow morning so I need to know ASAP.

Someone tell me one way or t'other.

Thanks
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Miss said:
I feel I should know the answer to this, but I don't. I have a new system
arriving tomorrow with three SATA drives (2x75GB Raptors and 1x250GB WD). I
have a lot of data on a 200GB WDC that will take me forever to back up (and
I really don't have the time, inclination, nor the DVDs!) Can I slave it to
the 250 and have Windows (XP) pick it up correctly? I am also losing this
one tomorrow morning so I need to know ASAP.

Someone tell me one way or t'other.


Thanks
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Not a particularly "Quick" question... but here's the "Quick" answer, NO.

Art Leonard
 
If your IDE HD has an operating system on it, make sure to point to
the correct boot up drive in the BIOS. Otherwise, you'll get all
kinds of error messages. i.e. 1st: floppy, 2nd: Cd-rom 3rd:
SATA/SCSI. Do not enable other boot up devices.

This should work. hope this helps!

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