Sata & Pata hd's on one mb at same time..??

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Hello.
I currently have an 80 gig pata full of stuff.
I just bought a couple 120gig Sata hd's.
What I wanna do, is simply transfer the data on the Pata, to the Sata.
What will be my easiest solution..??
Note: Once the data is transfered, I'll be removing the pata.

Thanks.
 
Rickkins said:
Hello.
I currently have an 80 gig pata full of stuff.
I just bought a couple 120gig Sata hd's.
What I wanna do, is simply transfer the data on the Pata, to the Sata.
What will be my easiest solution..??
Note: Once the data is transfered, I'll be removing the pata.

Thanks.
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Find the SATA drivers for your motherboard, make sure that you have them on
floppy disk. Do not uninstall the PATA drive. But boot from the Windows
install CD-Rom and reinstall windows on the SATA drive. You will need the
SATA drivers on floppy disk to do this. After windows is reinstalled, then
your PATA drive should show up in windows explorer. That's the correct way
to do it.

If you want to cheat, you can use a program like Acronis True Image to copy
EVERYTHING from the PATA to the SATA hard drive. But then you'd still have
to install the SATA drivers to get the SATA drive to boot. -Dave
 
Find the SATA drivers for your motherboard, make sure that you have them on
floppy disk. Do not uninstall the PATA drive. But boot from the Windows
install CD-Rom and reinstall windows on the SATA drive. You will need the
SATA drivers on floppy disk to do this. After windows is reinstalled, then
your PATA drive should show up in windows explorer. That's the correct way
to do it.

If you want to cheat, you can use a program like Acronis True Image to copy
EVERYTHING from the PATA to the SATA hard drive. But then you'd still have
to install the SATA drivers to get the SATA drive to boot. -Dave
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Excellent.
Thanks Dave.
 
Rickkins said:
Excellent.
Thanks Dave.
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Depends on your motherboard, the latest boards make the SATA appear as
PATA to WinXP, so you just use the drive manufacturers copy utility to copy
the old drive across to a new drive, then remove old drive. Do NOT boot
first time after copying with both drives connected, it will corrupt your
installation.
Mike.
 
I have two Operating Systems on my motherboard. I'm using the Abit AT8
mainboard. My BIOS lets me create PROFILES. I don't want the OSs to
recognize each other so I use the BIOS profiles to boot to one or the
other. My BIOS will let me boot to SATA drives or PATA drives (SATA
only or PATA only), or all drives at once. Like, I cannot boot on SATA
1 (master) and SATA 3 (slave) without SATA 2 and 4 being recognized. I
got a new 80G Maxtor 133 for PATA because I had a little older Maxtor
133 to use as a slave. I didn't realize how noisy the older Maxtor was
until I used it on this quieter system. When I removed the older
Maxtor, I could hear the new one making the same type of noise but with
longer wave lengths and quieter. I figure it is just a matter of time
until this new one becomes loud. I ordered a PATA (IDE) to SATA adapter
and another 30" SATA cable from Cable Club and another Samsung SATA
3Gb/s. Anyway, as long as your BIOS recognizes all your drives at
start-up, you should easily be able to transfer files. If you do run
into problems, then just put the data onto a CD and then onto your
SATA. If there is a will, then there is a way. I can think of several
ways to do it.
 
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