I am buying a seagate 160gig SATA. (good price..!) At present I have a ATA 133 - 40G ; my motherboard is designed to take SATA. No problem there. But, my q. is can SATA as C:\ and PATA as D:\ coexist on the same motherboard? I also have another Pata drive which is D:\ (40Gig) and I will be getting rid of it. I am running XP prof.
Additionally, how will I take a mirror image of my present 40G into SATA? I would prefer it to be *exact* mirror. I do not want to lose any of my data on my old drive when I transfer. Can someone help me with an answer please?
I would like very much to just get going with the new drive as C:\ with a seamless transition.
I am trying not to spend on any additional software.
2006-09-05 15:32:37 · 3 answers · asked by Nightrider 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Not quite that simple. First of all, you're going to have to go iinto your Bios and select the SATA drive as the boot drive. If you didn't get any software with your new drive to transfer everything from your old drive to the new one and you don't want to spend any money on new software, you're going to have problems. If you have access to another computer you can remove your current c drive and install it into the other computer, then copy everything off that drive. Remove the drive and install the new SATA drive as a slave drive and copy everything on to it. You can then install both drives into your computer and you are good to go. Without specialized software like Norton Ghost that's about the only way to get everything from your old drive onto the new one. There are other ways to physically connect the drives, you can use a USB to IDE cable, you can use an external drive case, etc. but you'll need to access both drives from another computer in order to get the mirror image you want.
2006-09-05 15:55:42 · answer #1 · answered by rolandmcduk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Make sure that the SATA is connected to the SATA connection and the ATA is connected to the ATA connection. The Motherboard takes care of the rest.
Create a 40 GB partition on the SATA drive and copy the contents from ATA to SATA.
2006-09-05 22:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pata and sata
2006-09-06 01:00:09 · answer #3 · answered by BHARGAVA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋