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SATA to EIDE Drive
Name: Jesse (by mooneyjess1999) Date: January 29, 2007 at 13:42:45 Pacific OS: Win XP/Vista CPU/Ram: 3.0GHZ/1GB RAM Product: Dell 4600
Comment:
My Dell 4600 has both SATA and EIDE Ports on the motherboard, I am just about to use the SATA ports for the first time, I am going to install an operating system on it (Windows XP) and I want to get my data from my old EIDE Drive.
How would I do this, The EIDE drive is on cable select mode, and my cable is the type that it has to be on CS. So how would I make the SATA Drive the primary and the EIDE a back up drive?
Name: OtheHill Date: January 29, 2007 at 16:15:11 Pacific
Reply:
What OS is currently installed on the IDE drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: Jesse (by mooneyjess1999) Date: January 29, 2007 at 17:39:43 Pacific
Reply:
Windows XP
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Response Number 3
Name: clacker Date: January 30, 2007 at 07:35:19 Pacific
Reply:
I can recommend you to install Acronis True Image Home. It has a feature PC Cloning. It will allow you to interchange your drives with a few mouse clicks.
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: January 30, 2007 at 07:47:18 Pacific
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Hard drive manufacturers have free utilities that will accomplish the same thing as Acronis. One may have come with your drive. If not you can download one. Configuring the drives goes like this. Leave the OLD drive exactly as is, PATA and SATA operate on different controllers. SATA drive have no master/slave settings. They are ALL master. That is the primary advantage. As far as cloning the new drive goes, I am unsure of how Dell is handling athe restore function of your system. Cloning could make the system inoperable. You may want to check with Dell concerning this upgrade unless someone wiser then myself can advise you better.
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Name: Jesse (by mooneyjess1999)
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