Connecting Sata Drive And Backup Current Drive
Replies: 14 | Post Date: April 12th 2008 | User: Gopikrish | Forums: devhardware.comMy motherboard is k8t neo2 series atx mainboard and i am having 80 gb sata hard drive. There are 2 sata ports (sata1 and sata2) and my current hard drive is connected to sata2 port. I want to backup my existing hard drive (mirror image) into a new sata hard drive using ghost or any other imaging application. So i can connect my new hard drive into sata1 port and will it work? After connecting my new hard drive paralleled into sata1 and booting windows from my old hard drive, will the new hard drive be recognized? Should i need to format my hard drive and then use ghost application or directly i can use?
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- Connecting A Second Sata Hard Drive
- Backup To Internal Ide Drive Or External Drive ?
- Backup A Flash Drive
- Best Way To Backup An Entire Hard Drive ?
- Which 1.5tb Drive To Get For Data Backup ?
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- Internal Sata Drive Shows Up As Removable Drive
- Why Is A 2nd Sata Drive Making Both Sata's Unrecognized ?
- Internal Sata Blu Ray Drive Plugged Into Sata
- Adding A Third Sata Drive To An Existing Sata Raid Array
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- New Sata 2 Drive
- Connecting An Ata-6 Laptop Drive To A Desktop
- Connecting Slave Drive Without Spare Connector
- Sata Cd / Dvd Drive
- Sata Drive Trouble
- Secondary Sata Drive
- Sata Cd Rom Drive
- Ghosting To New Sata Drive
- Dvd Drive Sata 1.5 Or 3.0 ?
- Sata Drive Under $100
- Sata Vs Eide Drive
- Cannot See External Sata Drive Anywhere
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How To Backup A Sata Drive With An Os On It Out Of Another Pc ?
My cousin has a 250gb wd sata drive from his old comp and he wants me to back-up all the itunes music he paid for. It was in his old comp, but the motherboard blew out on him so he brought the drive over today to see what we can do with it. Am i going to have to pick-up something like a sata to usb adapter, or is there another option?
Posted On: 12-25-2009, 04:38 PM . View 2 Replies .
My cousin has a 250gb wd sata drive from his old comp and he wants me to back-up all the itunes music he paid for. It was in his old comp, but the motherboard blew out on him so he brought the drive over today to see what we can do with it. Am i going to have to pick-up something like a sata to usb adapter, or is there another option?
Posted On: 12-25-2009, 04:38 PM . View 2 Replies .
Connecting A Second Sata Hard Drive
Currently there is a sata hard drive that is connected to sata1 on the motherboard. We want to install another sata hard drive. The motherboard has ports for 6 sata drives. My question is does it have to be hooked up to sata2 on the motherboard or can it be hooked up to sata4 or sata6 motherboard ports or any of the other ports?
Our problem is that there is a very tight fit between the sata motherboard ports and the side of the hard drive cage. When i built the computer for my grandson i had a hard time getting the 90 degree sata plug installed or pushed on to the motherboard sata1 port and right now it is not possible to use motherboard sata2 port without removing the 90 degree plug from sata1 port and try to use a straight plug on the sata1 port and the 90 degree plug on the sata2 plug. It is my opinion that it would be nearly impossible to install a straight plug because of so little space. My only other option would be is to go to a larger sata hard drive. The purpoase of the second hard drive is to install windows vista on it instead of on the same drive as windows xp. Motherboard: asus p5n32-e sli
Posted On: December 13th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
Currently there is a sata hard drive that is connected to sata1 on the motherboard. We want to install another sata hard drive. The motherboard has ports for 6 sata drives. My question is does it have to be hooked up to sata2 on the motherboard or can it be hooked up to sata4 or sata6 motherboard ports or any of the other ports?
Our problem is that there is a very tight fit between the sata motherboard ports and the side of the hard drive cage. When i built the computer for my grandson i had a hard time getting the 90 degree sata plug installed or pushed on to the motherboard sata1 port and right now it is not possible to use motherboard sata2 port without removing the 90 degree plug from sata1 port and try to use a straight plug on the sata1 port and the 90 degree plug on the sata2 plug. It is my opinion that it would be nearly impossible to install a straight plug because of so little space. My only other option would be is to go to a larger sata hard drive. The purpoase of the second hard drive is to install windows vista on it instead of on the same drive as windows xp. Motherboard: asus p5n32-e sli
Posted On: December 13th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
Backup To Internal Ide Drive Or External Drive ?
My asus p5b-3 mobo has internal connections for 2 sata drives and 1 pata drive. I currently have a wd 74 gb raptor (sata) used for os and programs, a samsung 320 gb (sata) for data, and a 300 gb seagate (ide) for backup. The seagate is just about full so i'm looking to replace it. The biggest internal ide drive i see on newegg is a wd caviar blue 500 gb drive. (3 year warranty) ~ $88 w/shipping. The external drives go well beyond what i need in terms of storage capacity. But i am concerned about heat failure issues. I've had problems with drives in an external enclosure fail before. Which i think was related to heat issues. But that was a 3. 5" drive in an external enclosure. Perhaps the 2. 5" drives connected by usb/firewire do not run so warm. I don't know. My p5b-e mobo has an external firewire port. From a performance and durability perspective, would i be better served by an internal ide drive or an external usb or firewire drive? Maybe a 2. 5" laptop drive in an external enclosure? I think that would run cooler than a 3. 5" drive in an external enclosure. Or maybe a wd passport type drive? I would also like to have more than 1 year warranty too. I'd prefer to stay in the vicinity of $100 +/-. What do you suggest for a 500 gb to 1 tb storage drive? I backup several computers to it with drives ranging from 60 gb to 320 gb. It's taken me about 3 years to load up the 300 gb seagate. So i'm comfy with 500gb to 1 tb for the next few years.
Posted On: 02-15-2010, 10:17 PM . View 8 Replies .
My asus p5b-3 mobo has internal connections for 2 sata drives and 1 pata drive. I currently have a wd 74 gb raptor (sata) used for os and programs, a samsung 320 gb (sata) for data, and a 300 gb seagate (ide) for backup. The seagate is just about full so i'm looking to replace it. The biggest internal ide drive i see on newegg is a wd caviar blue 500 gb drive. (3 year warranty) ~ $88 w/shipping. The external drives go well beyond what i need in terms of storage capacity. But i am concerned about heat failure issues. I've had problems with drives in an external enclosure fail before. Which i think was related to heat issues. But that was a 3. 5" drive in an external enclosure. Perhaps the 2. 5" drives connected by usb/firewire do not run so warm. I don't know. My p5b-e mobo has an external firewire port. From a performance and durability perspective, would i be better served by an internal ide drive or an external usb or firewire drive? Maybe a 2. 5" laptop drive in an external enclosure? I think that would run cooler than a 3. 5" drive in an external enclosure. Or maybe a wd passport type drive? I would also like to have more than 1 year warranty too. I'd prefer to stay in the vicinity of $100 +/-. What do you suggest for a 500 gb to 1 tb storage drive? I backup several computers to it with drives ranging from 60 gb to 320 gb. It's taken me about 3 years to load up the 300 gb seagate. So i'm comfy with 500gb to 1 tb for the next few years.
Posted On: 02-15-2010, 10:17 PM . View 8 Replies .
Backup A Flash Drive
Just wondering how other are backing up the data on their flash drives. I do not mean backup data to a flash drive. But backing up a flash drive in case of lost/stolen, flash drive failure, etc.
Posted On: 07-13-2009, 12:58 PM . View 9 Replies .
Just wondering how other are backing up the data on their flash drives. I do not mean backup data to a flash drive. But backing up a flash drive in case of lost/stolen, flash drive failure, etc.
Posted On: 07-13-2009, 12:58 PM . View 9 Replies .
Best Way To Backup An Entire Hard Drive ?
So up till now i've been backing up everything on my hard drives by simply copying new files, file by file to another hard drive at the end of every week and replacing any file that has been updated since the last backup. This is getting ridiculously repetitive however, so i was wondering if there was any better way to do this. I've tried using acronis in the past but i don't really like the way it compresses everything into a single acronis accessible only file. Is there any program that will backup data (and also update files if they are changed since the last backup) automatically without any form of compression?
Posted On: 04-05-2009, 07:31 PM . View 8 Replies .
So up till now i've been backing up everything on my hard drives by simply copying new files, file by file to another hard drive at the end of every week and replacing any file that has been updated since the last backup. This is getting ridiculously repetitive however, so i was wondering if there was any better way to do this. I've tried using acronis in the past but i don't really like the way it compresses everything into a single acronis accessible only file. Is there any program that will backup data (and also update files if they are changed since the last backup) automatically without any form of compression?
Posted On: 04-05-2009, 07:31 PM . View 8 Replies .
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I'd like to get either the seagate or wd green 1. 5tb drives for backup, but both have bad ratings. Have the seagates really improved in quality? I already have a few wd10eads drives and am very happy with them, so i'd prefer the wd15eads esp since it'll run cooler and speed is not an issue. But that has even worse ratings than the seagate, and its more $$ as well.
Posted On: 06-03-2009, 04:05 PM . View 10 Replies .
I'd like to get either the seagate or wd green 1. 5tb drives for backup, but both have bad ratings. Have the seagates really improved in quality? I already have a few wd10eads drives and am very happy with them, so i'd prefer the wd15eads esp since it'll run cooler and speed is not an issue. But that has even worse ratings than the seagate, and its more $$ as well.
Posted On: 06-03-2009, 04:05 PM . View 10 Replies .
Usb Backup Drive Not Recognized By Ps3
I formated a backup drive to fat32 from windows vista. My vista computer and xp computer recognized the drive but my ps3 will not, does nor show up anywhere. My usb 8g flash drive works fine.
Posted On: 09-19-2008 . View 8 Replies .
I formated a backup drive to fat32 from windows vista. My vista computer and xp computer recognized the drive but my ps3 will not, does nor show up anywhere. My usb 8g flash drive works fine.
Posted On: 09-19-2008 . View 8 Replies .
Xp Install Wont Recognize My Backup External Hard Drive
I know i have to assign the external hard drive a drive letter but i don't know how to do it without formatting the drive. I obviously don't want to format the drive because it has all of my backup information from my old hard drive. The hdd is a western digital oem 320gb ide put into an external enclosure. The external enclosure worked perfect on old computer, but it was formatted on it. When i turn on the hdd my computer recognizes it as a usb mas storage device, it just doesn't assign it a drive letter. When i run western digital's data lifeguard tools it wants to set up the drive and make it additional storage, but it also must partition and format the drive before it can do so. For some reason i assumed this would be easy, i almost feel like im taking crazy pills. When i go into windows disk management all i can do is partition and format the drive, maybe im missing something.
Posted On: 01-17-2007, 06:21 PM . View 17 Replies .
I know i have to assign the external hard drive a drive letter but i don't know how to do it without formatting the drive. I obviously don't want to format the drive because it has all of my backup information from my old hard drive. The hdd is a western digital oem 320gb ide put into an external enclosure. The external enclosure worked perfect on old computer, but it was formatted on it. When i turn on the hdd my computer recognizes it as a usb mas storage device, it just doesn't assign it a drive letter. When i run western digital's data lifeguard tools it wants to set up the drive and make it additional storage, but it also must partition and format the drive before it can do so. For some reason i assumed this would be easy, i almost feel like im taking crazy pills. When i go into windows disk management all i can do is partition and format the drive, maybe im missing something.
Posted On: 01-17-2007, 06:21 PM . View 17 Replies .
Raid Drive Failure, Can't Get Backup Image To Work
Having trouble getting my backup cloned drive to work. I initially had a raid setup: two wd 250gig sata in raid 0, one drive started to go nuts, i luckily was able to make a backup image to a single wd 640gig sata. The raid was from the motherboard controller epox ep-8k9a7i. I unplugged the two 250gig drives then proceeded to plug in the single 640gig, the mobo controller recognizes the drive, but it wont boot into windows. I then did a successful boot sector rebuild in the xp recovery console on the 640gig drive, still no go. I used driveimage xml from the raid0 windows install for the clone process to the 640gig, would this be causing a bad clone? What programs might others suggest i use? Am i missing something? Could use a few more ideas to get this backup drive to boot!
Posted On: 11-25-2009, 01:15 PM . View 1 Replies .
Having trouble getting my backup cloned drive to work. I initially had a raid setup: two wd 250gig sata in raid 0, one drive started to go nuts, i luckily was able to make a backup image to a single wd 640gig sata. The raid was from the motherboard controller epox ep-8k9a7i. I unplugged the two 250gig drives then proceeded to plug in the single 640gig, the mobo controller recognizes the drive, but it wont boot into windows. I then did a successful boot sector rebuild in the xp recovery console on the 640gig drive, still no go. I used driveimage xml from the raid0 windows install for the clone process to the 640gig, would this be causing a bad clone? What programs might others suggest i use? Am i missing something? Could use a few more ideas to get this backup drive to boot!
Posted On: 11-25-2009, 01:15 PM . View 1 Replies .
Does A Sata Drive Make Ide Drive System Faster ?
Does a sata drive make my ide drive system faster? I have dell dimension 2350 with pentium iv 1. 8ghz cpu and 512mb of memory. The motherboard does not have a sata connection. So i installed pci adaptec serial ata raid 1210sa card with one 80gb sata drive. Now i need test the speed of the sata drive verses ide drive. Is there any software that will test the speed of both sata drive and ide drive?
Posted On: June 15th, 2006, 07:32 AM . View 2 Replies .
Does a sata drive make my ide drive system faster? I have dell dimension 2350 with pentium iv 1. 8ghz cpu and 512mb of memory. The motherboard does not have a sata connection. So i installed pci adaptec serial ata raid 1210sa card with one 80gb sata drive. Now i need test the speed of the sata drive verses ide drive. Is there any software that will test the speed of both sata drive and ide drive?
Posted On: June 15th, 2006, 07:32 AM . View 2 Replies .
External Hdd, Sata Or Usb For Backup
Situation;
Three pc's; two towers (both w/ two hdd's) and one laptop (not used often), not alot of data, but instead of using dvd's to backup, this seems easier, one device for all three would be nice, though the laptop i could live without, it would be used mainly for my main box (tower). Questions;
1. If i went with a usb interface, can i assume the ps is external?
2. Can i then assume most are those damn 'bricks' as opposed to internal ps's within the hdd enclosure?
3. Are there any models w/ internal ps's, or at least a ps that is on a cable so it isn't hanging from the power strip?
4. Between the all in one (hdd, enclosure & ps) vs buying the enclosure, ps and the hdd separately, what's the better route?
5. If i went with a sata drive, are there any enclosures that are tailored to this setup?
6. The cabling from the pc to the unit. Make shift or use a premade pci slot plate w/ connectors (assuming they are available)?
Posted On: August 5th 2008 . View 4 Replies .
Situation;
Three pc's; two towers (both w/ two hdd's) and one laptop (not used often), not alot of data, but instead of using dvd's to backup, this seems easier, one device for all three would be nice, though the laptop i could live without, it would be used mainly for my main box (tower). Questions;
1. If i went with a usb interface, can i assume the ps is external?
2. Can i then assume most are those damn 'bricks' as opposed to internal ps's within the hdd enclosure?
3. Are there any models w/ internal ps's, or at least a ps that is on a cable so it isn't hanging from the power strip?
4. Between the all in one (hdd, enclosure & ps) vs buying the enclosure, ps and the hdd separately, what's the better route?
5. If i went with a sata drive, are there any enclosures that are tailored to this setup?
6. The cabling from the pc to the unit. Make shift or use a premade pci slot plate w/ connectors (assuming they are available)?
Posted On: August 5th 2008 . View 4 Replies .
Internal Sata Drive Shows Up As Removable Drive
My sata storage drive on my p4p800 dlx sys. Started showing up as a removable drive. I noticed the other day that it showed up as a removable usb device. Today the drive disappeared momentarily but then showed up as a usb device again.
Posted On: 09-19-2007, 04:07 AM . View 7 Replies .
My sata storage drive on my p4p800 dlx sys. Started showing up as a removable drive. I noticed the other day that it showed up as a removable usb device. Today the drive disappeared momentarily but then showed up as a usb device again.
Posted On: 09-19-2007, 04:07 AM . View 7 Replies .
Why Is A 2nd Sata Drive Making Both Sata's Unrecognized ?
I just removed my old ide hdd with xp and replaced it with a sata drive and installed vista on it. Everything was fine, until:
I installed a second brand new unformatted sata hdd. With the second drive installed neither of the new drives are recognized and windows won't boot. Is it something obvious i'm missing?
Posted On: May 19th, 2007, 02:40 AM . View 6 Replies .
I just removed my old ide hdd with xp and replaced it with a sata drive and installed vista on it. Everything was fine, until:
I installed a second brand new unformatted sata hdd. With the second drive installed neither of the new drives are recognized and windows won't boot. Is it something obvious i'm missing?
Posted On: May 19th, 2007, 02:40 AM . View 6 Replies .
Internal Sata Blu Ray Drive Plugged Into Sata
Alright, i'll make this short and sweet. I want to free one of my sata ports up so i can install another hard drive. My motherboard has a built in esata port on the back. Is it as simple as moving my blu ray sata cable to the esata jack on the back? Aesthetics mean nothing, this computer is hidden.
Posted On: 06-08-2009, 11:39 PM . View 4 Replies .
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Posted On: 06-08-2009, 11:39 PM . View 4 Replies .
Adding A Third Sata Drive To An Existing Sata Raid Array
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Posted On: December 13th 2008 . View 3 Replies .
I have two 300gig sata drives set up in a raid 1 array. I want to add a third sata drive separate from the raid array so i can extract data from it. Any info would be appreciated.
Posted On: December 13th 2008 . View 3 Replies .
Connecting Floppy Drive To New Psu
My psu doesn't seem to have a floppy connector on it, i'm not 100% familiar with the terminology, but i assume i need a "4 pin molex to floppy" connector. Is that it?
Posted On: 12-11-2007, 05:06 PM . View 16 Replies .
My psu doesn't seem to have a floppy connector on it, i'm not 100% familiar with the terminology, but i assume i need a "4 pin molex to floppy" connector. Is that it?
Posted On: 12-11-2007, 05:06 PM . View 16 Replies .
New Sata 2 Drive
I'm goin to be getting a new sata dive soon, but would like some feedback from people on how they like theirs. Please list your sata drive and what you think about it. (And a question: are sata ii drive backwards compatible with sata i mobo's?)
Posted On: 07-06-2006, 01:52 PM . View 24 Replies .
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Posted On: 07-06-2006, 01:52 PM . View 24 Replies .
Connecting An Ata-6 Laptop Drive To A Desktop
I'm wondering is there any way to connect an ata-6 laptop hardrive to a desktop computer? This is the drive in question:
http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16822136114
Posted On: 09-17-2009, 12:11 PM . View 4 Replies .
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http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16822136114
Posted On: 09-17-2009, 12:11 PM . View 4 Replies .
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Posted On: June 7th 2009 . View 8 Replies .
How to connect a slave drive when there's no spare connector on the hard drive cable? My motherboard has 3 ide channel/ports. One is for the floppy disk, the other for the cd drive and the 3rd one is for the hard drive. I plan on upgrading my hard disk, and i plan on cloning my old drive. For this i need to install the new drive as a slave drive. However on recent inspection i've noticed that the cable connecting my hard drive cable to the ide port has no extra connector where the slave hard drive can be connected. However on the cd drive cable there is a spare connector. Am i supposed to get a new cable with a spare connector for my hard drive cable, or can i place the slave hard drive on the spare connector for the cd cable. Random q: can the ide cable experience esd damage?
Posted On: June 7th 2009 . View 8 Replies .
Sata Cd / Dvd Drive
So i have been surfing around the web trying to find a cd/dvd drive that has tabs on the tray so a disc could stay in place when being loaded vertically or at a angle. If some one could direct me to a company still putting tabs on their trays that would be a huge help to me.
Posted On: 03-19-2009, 06:21 PM . View 5 Replies .
So i have been surfing around the web trying to find a cd/dvd drive that has tabs on the tray so a disc could stay in place when being loaded vertically or at a angle. If some one could direct me to a company still putting tabs on their trays that would be a huge help to me.
Posted On: 03-19-2009, 06:21 PM . View 5 Replies .
Sata Drive Trouble
I got a diamond maxtor 10 sata drive 250g with 16mb cache. Hooked it up to my msi ms7093 board with no issues and installed xp without a hitch. After that ran some stuff evrything seemed ok. Now i zeroed the drive in prep for copying my partitons from my old seagate drive, after zeroing it it no longers except partitioning or formatting very well. I ran the utlities disc from maxtors website and it spat out a drive error code and then states the drive is in imminent failure save your files while you can type scenerio. This is a refurb so should i rma it or try some other sofware like partition magic to fix it.
Posted On: 02-24-2006, 10:53 AM . View 2 Replies .
I got a diamond maxtor 10 sata drive 250g with 16mb cache. Hooked it up to my msi ms7093 board with no issues and installed xp without a hitch. After that ran some stuff evrything seemed ok. Now i zeroed the drive in prep for copying my partitons from my old seagate drive, after zeroing it it no longers except partitioning or formatting very well. I ran the utlities disc from maxtors website and it spat out a drive error code and then states the drive is in imminent failure save your files while you can type scenerio. This is a refurb so should i rma it or try some other sofware like partition magic to fix it.
Posted On: 02-24-2006, 10:53 AM . View 2 Replies .
Secondary Sata Drive
I am putting in a second hard drive in my pc. A wester digital 40 gb, sata. It was from another pc, so i wiped it (wipedrive pro) and i have it plugged in on my pc. If i open windows explorer i don't see the drive, but if i go into computer management and click on disk management i can see the disk. What do i need to do to get this new hd visible so i can use it?
Posted On: July 26th, 2007, 10:27 AM . View 11 Replies .
I am putting in a second hard drive in my pc. A wester digital 40 gb, sata. It was from another pc, so i wiped it (wipedrive pro) and i have it plugged in on my pc. If i open windows explorer i don't see the drive, but if i go into computer management and click on disk management i can see the disk. What do i need to do to get this new hd visible so i can use it?
Posted On: July 26th, 2007, 10:27 AM . View 11 Replies .
Sata Cd Rom Drive
Anyone here using a sata cdrom drive in their system here? I got 1 on order, and was hoping you were able to install winxp using it? I did this only to finally get rid of my last ide cable in my case. It will be connected to the intel ich8r controller so no drivers need to be loaded, so i cant foresee a problem, but wanted to ask anyways.
Posted On: 12-07-2006, 04:01 PM . View 8 Replies .
Anyone here using a sata cdrom drive in their system here? I got 1 on order, and was hoping you were able to install winxp using it? I did this only to finally get rid of my last ide cable in my case. It will be connected to the intel ich8r controller so no drivers need to be loaded, so i cant foresee a problem, but wanted to ask anyways.
Posted On: 12-07-2006, 04:01 PM . View 8 Replies .
Ghosting To New Sata Drive
I have finally got around to buying a sata hard drive, which i want to use as my main system drive. As my avatar caption suggests, i am lazy and don't like doing work which isn't necessary, and that includes having to install windows on the new drive. I'm kind of happy with the way my xp install is running at the moment too, and have loads of stuff installed, plus little reg tweaks etc which it would take me ages to repeat on a fresh install. I thought i'd just ghost the existing install onto the new drive, as the new drive is detected in windows and has been formatted. Only problem is, when i run ghost (from boot disk) with the sata drive connected, it hangs. So does anyone know a way around this, or a different imaging util which would work?
Posted On: December 19th, 2005, 07:04 AM . View 7 Replies .
I have finally got around to buying a sata hard drive, which i want to use as my main system drive. As my avatar caption suggests, i am lazy and don't like doing work which isn't necessary, and that includes having to install windows on the new drive. I'm kind of happy with the way my xp install is running at the moment too, and have loads of stuff installed, plus little reg tweaks etc which it would take me ages to repeat on a fresh install. I thought i'd just ghost the existing install onto the new drive, as the new drive is detected in windows and has been formatted. Only problem is, when i run ghost (from boot disk) with the sata drive connected, it hangs. So does anyone know a way around this, or a different imaging util which would work?
Posted On: December 19th, 2005, 07:04 AM . View 7 Replies .
Dvd Drive Sata 1.5 Or 3.0 ?
I own a sony optiarc dvd burner model ad-7240s-0b. But i wanted to ask, does it run at sata 1. 5gb/s or sata 3. 0gb/s?
Does anyone know?
http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16827118030
Posted On: 01-14-2010, 01:30 PM . View 9 Replies .
I own a sony optiarc dvd burner model ad-7240s-0b. But i wanted to ask, does it run at sata 1. 5gb/s or sata 3. 0gb/s?
Does anyone know?
http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=n82e16827118030
Posted On: 01-14-2010, 01:30 PM . View 9 Replies .
Sata Drive Under $100
My current win7 system is running off of a 320gb ata100 drive because all my sata drives are in my whs system. I now want to move my os drive to a faster sata drive, but i don't know which would be best. Speed is my main concern then storage size. I would prefer at least another 320gb drive but i can go somewhat smaller if necessary. My budget is under $100 but the cheaper the better.
Posted On: 03-16-2010, 03:11 PM . View 11 Replies .
My current win7 system is running off of a 320gb ata100 drive because all my sata drives are in my whs system. I now want to move my os drive to a faster sata drive, but i don't know which would be best. Speed is my main concern then storage size. I would prefer at least another 320gb drive but i can go somewhat smaller if necessary. My budget is under $100 but the cheaper the better.
Posted On: 03-16-2010, 03:11 PM . View 11 Replies .
Sata Vs Eide Drive
I just replaced a broken dvd drive that had an atapi/e-ide interface for one with a sata interface. Any benefits to having a sata vs atapi/e-ide drive? Also, does it matter that i have a eide ribbon connected to the motherboard without anything connected to it? The cable was so neatly wired i just layed it in an empty bay.
Posted On: 12-13-2009, 06:00 PM . View 4 Replies .
I just replaced a broken dvd drive that had an atapi/e-ide interface for one with a sata interface. Any benefits to having a sata vs atapi/e-ide drive? Also, does it matter that i have a eide ribbon connected to the motherboard without anything connected to it? The cable was so neatly wired i just layed it in an empty bay.
Posted On: 12-13-2009, 06:00 PM . View 4 Replies .
Cannot See External Sata Drive Anywhere
I have a ide boot drive, along with another ide storage drive currently. I just picked up wd sata 250gb along with a ritmo external box, with the idea to use this as an external storage device. My motherboard supports sata, although i'm not sure if it is relevant as i am using usb. I have connected the sata cable and the power supply, within the external box and have connected the usb cable to both computer and box. The problem is that i cannot see the sata drive anywhere. I have searched in explorer, computer management etc and i cant find it anywhere so i cant format it or even assign it a letter. When i check device manager it appears to be connected cos i can see 'usb mass storage' under the usb section and it says that is working properly, but i cannot find it anywhere else to use it. I have also looked at the wd data life guard tools and can also see the drive in that, but when i go to set it up it formats with a size of 0kb's and no option to use it's full size. Does anyone have any suggestion's as to how i go about setting this up.
Posted On: April 28th 2006 . View 1 Replies .
I have a ide boot drive, along with another ide storage drive currently. I just picked up wd sata 250gb along with a ritmo external box, with the idea to use this as an external storage device. My motherboard supports sata, although i'm not sure if it is relevant as i am using usb. I have connected the sata cable and the power supply, within the external box and have connected the usb cable to both computer and box. The problem is that i cannot see the sata drive anywhere. I have searched in explorer, computer management etc and i cant find it anywhere so i cant format it or even assign it a letter. When i check device manager it appears to be connected cos i can see 'usb mass storage' under the usb section and it says that is working properly, but i cannot find it anywhere else to use it. I have also looked at the wd data life guard tools and can also see the drive in that, but when i go to set it up it formats with a size of 0kb's and no option to use it's full size. Does anyone have any suggestion's as to how i go about setting this up.
Posted On: April 28th 2006 . View 1 Replies .
Dead Sata Drive
I shutdown my machine the other night and thinking it had completed the shutdown, i turned the mains power off but alas i was wrong. The machine was powered up later that day and it gets past post but goes no further. No error message, just a black screen. Looking in the bios, my drive is no longer listed and cannot be auto detected (but as it is a sata drive, does it appear anyway?)
When the pc is booting, it brings up the raid screen which says my drive is present, and names it together with its capacity. I tried to do an xp fix or reinstall and it tells me that no hdd is connected to my pc. I have reinstalled the tp raid driver to see if this cures it, but to no avail. Short of getting a new drive, connecting it, reinstalling windows and attempting to do a data recovery, is there anything i can do? Im not concerned about the software on the disk, but it does contain thousands of photos of my kids as babies which i do not want to lose.
Posted On: January 13th 2005 . View 3 Replies .
I shutdown my machine the other night and thinking it had completed the shutdown, i turned the mains power off but alas i was wrong. The machine was powered up later that day and it gets past post but goes no further. No error message, just a black screen. Looking in the bios, my drive is no longer listed and cannot be auto detected (but as it is a sata drive, does it appear anyway?)
When the pc is booting, it brings up the raid screen which says my drive is present, and names it together with its capacity. I tried to do an xp fix or reinstall and it tells me that no hdd is connected to my pc. I have reinstalled the tp raid driver to see if this cures it, but to no avail. Short of getting a new drive, connecting it, reinstalling windows and attempting to do a data recovery, is there anything i can do? Im not concerned about the software on the disk, but it does contain thousands of photos of my kids as babies which i do not want to lose.
Posted On: January 13th 2005 . View 3 Replies .