IDE to SATA data transfer

Lysander

Lysander

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OK, a few people may say off the bat that this isn't possible. Maybe it isn't.

I have a load of data to transfer from my IDE hard drives to some new SATA ones. So... can I link the IDE to the SATA drives and pass the data over, or is it not possible to link the two? If not.. I'll just have to transfer the data to several DVDs...
 
plug both drives into a computer with both an IDE connector and a SATA connector (IE pretty much any PC within last 3yrs) and just transfer the files from one to the other in windows as normal?
 
mikeymike said:
plug both drives into a computer with both an IDE connector and a SATA connector ...
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What he said...

If you want to transfer a workig OS from one to the other, then a Win95 boot floppy will access both the IDE and SATA drives no problem and you can use ghosting software like Norton Ghost or Acronis. (But I think you need to install Acronis)
 
mikeymike said:
plug both drives into a computer with both an IDE connector and a SATA connector (IE pretty much any PC within last 3yrs) and just transfer the files from one to the other in windows as normal?
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Does this mean that in theory I could have four working hard drives in the PC at any one time?
 
Lysander said:
I'm sure my mobo has only got two IDE channels though... or am I missing something?
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Each IDE channel can support 2 devices be they HDD or CD/DVD. Each SATA port can only support 1 device.

Lysander said:
Does this mean that in theory I could have four working hard drives in the PC at any one time?
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Yup. You can have many more than 4 depending on your setup, I'm running 10 HDDs plus a DVD at the moment, I have ports for another 4 devices spare too :D
 
What would you use 10 HDDs for??

And yes, that makes sense. I have four IDE devices running at the moment [I forgot to count the two DVD drives].
 
Bah just a couple of mp3s, few games i keep like americas army ect

i dont see problem, ive got the ide acting as seconday backup drive. seems fine.
 
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