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Posted by Eddie G on April 12, 2006, 8:52 pm
Please log in for more thread options slot and the DVD and CD drives in the secondary IDE slot. My current machine is IDE and for now I want to put my hard drive in the newer machine until I get a SATA drive. Can I just put the current hard drive in the new machine in the primary IDE slot and either disconnect the floppy or put it on the ribbon cable with the optical drives, putting them in the secondary IDE slot? I was told that there is a chance that I can damage the boot sector of the hard drive by just plugging it into the IDE controller. Is this true? Should I wait until I get the IDE controller card that my brother-in-law can mail to me? Thanks!! Eddie G | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Just Bob on April 12, 2006, 9:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options Eddie G wrote: Why don't you clone the drive before you do anything. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Eddie G on April 12, 2006, 9:13 pm
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> > Eddie G wrote: >> I was given a "new" computer that has the floppy drive in the primary
>> IDE slot and the DVD and CD drives in the secondary IDE slot. My >> current machine is IDE and for now I want to put my hard drive in the >> newer machine until I get a SATA drive. Can I just put the current >> hard drive in the new machine in the primary IDE slot and either >> disconnect the floppy or put it on the ribbon cable with the optical >> drives, putting them in the secondary IDE slot? I was told that >> there is a chance that I can damage the boot sector of the hard drive >> by just plugging it into the IDE controller. Is this true? Should >> I wait until I get the IDE controller card that my brother-in-law can >> mail to me? >> Thanks!! >> >> Eddie G >
> Why don't you clone the drive before you do anything. How do I do that with just one hard drive on my current machine? I thought I need 2 hard drives to clone one to the other, and my current machine does not support SATA. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Just Bob on April 12, 2006, 9:34 pm
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Eddie G wrote: >>
>> >> Eddie G wrote: >>> I was given a "new" computer that has the floppy drive in the
>>> primary IDE slot and the DVD and CD drives in the secondary IDE >>> slot. My current machine is IDE and for now I want to put my hard >>> drive in the newer machine until I get a SATA drive. Can I just >>> put the current hard drive in the new machine in the primary IDE >>> slot and either disconnect the floppy or put it on the ribbon cable >>> with the optical drives, putting them in the secondary IDE slot? I >>> was told that there is a chance that I can damage the boot sector >>> of the hard drive by just plugging it into the IDE controller. Is >>> this true? Should I wait until I get the IDE controller card that >>> my brother-in-law can mail to me? >>> Thanks!! >>> >>> Eddie G >>
>> Why don't you clone the drive before you do anything. >
> How do I do that with just one hard drive on my current machine? I > thought I need 2 hard drives to clone one to the other, and my > current machine does not support SATA. I would only say that not keeping a drive backed up is taking a risk even under usual conditions. I have done what you are attempting several times with no problems. Put the drive on the IDE cable as master with an optical drive as slave. The System probably only has one channel for HDDs and four SATA connectors. Later you can move the OS to a SATA if you care to. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by GreenieLeBrun on April 12, 2006, 9:40 pm
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Eddie G (removeme) wrote: > I was given a "new" computer that has the floppy drive in the primary IDE
> slot and the DVD and CD drives in the secondary IDE slot. My current > machine is IDE and for now I want to put my hard drive in the newer machine > until I get a SATA drive. Can I just put the current hard drive in the new > machine in the primary IDE slot and either disconnect the floppy or put it > on the ribbon cable with the optical drives, putting them in the secondary > IDE slot? I was told that there is a chance that I can damage the boot > sector of the hard drive by just plugging it into the IDE controller. Is > this true? Should I wait until I get the IDE controller card that my > brother-in-law can mail to me? > > Thanks!! > > Eddie G Take a closer look at your motherboard. Floppy drive ribbon cables are a different size (34 connections) to HDD ribbon cables (40 connections). If your "new" machine has is a SATA/PATA machine then it may have just one IDE connection. If that is the case then you will only be able to have two IDE devices (one master and one slave) unless you get an additional IDE controller card. Set the jumpers on the HDD as master and set the jumpers on either the DVD or CD as slave, as I said above if you only have one IDE channel then you are limited to two IDE devices. | ||||||||||||||||
> IDE slot and the DVD and CD drives in the secondary IDE slot. My
> current machine is IDE and for now I want to put my hard drive in the
> newer machine until I get a SATA drive. Can I just put the current
> hard drive in the new machine in the primary IDE slot and either
> disconnect the floppy or put it on the ribbon cable with the optical
> drives, putting them in the secondary IDE slot? I was told that
> there is a chance that I can damage the boot sector of the hard drive
> by just plugging it into the IDE controller. Is this true? Should
> I wait until I get the IDE controller card that my brother-in-law can
> mail to me?
> Thanks!!
>
> Eddie G