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transfering dat from ATA to SATA
Name: brian Date: November 5, 2003 at 09:59:53 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: P4 3.0 ghz, 512 mb
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Right now I have an 120 gig ATA drive with all my data and windows and everything on it. I would like to upgrade to 2 SATA drives in raid 0 array. My motherboard is compatible. I just want to find out if its possible to transfer everything from the ATA drive to the raid 0 and not lose a beat. Is this possible without messing up windows xp and all my configurations? If so can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks.
Name: brian Date: November 5, 2003 at 10:04:31 Pacific
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I forgot to ask this too: I might just get one SATA drive and transfer everything onto that instead of doing the raid 0. How do I go about doing that and get everything on it without any problems? Also does anyone know of any fast SATA drives they can recomend? Sorry for the extra questions =)
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Response Number 2
Name: aitrus Date: November 5, 2003 at 11:52:35 Pacific
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first set up the partions either to use the drive as a raid 0 or single drive.
also if you set the drives in raid zero u will not be able to remove one drive out od the chain or u will lose all data.
then use a program like norten gost to make an image of your drive and copy the drive to the new volume u created then enter your bios and tell the system to boot from the sata and just to make sure for the first time disconect the ata drive. after u see it working instal the ata drive back and delete your old drive if u like.
u should be able to find free versions of drive imaging software online just look under drive image :)
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