On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, wes wrote: > > > I strongly recommend that you put the currently external drive into its > > final working place before installing the OS. Then, attach the drives > with > > the data you want to migrate to the new drive as external drives. > > Wes, > > I was thinking of doing this. My adapter will accept a 2.5" (laptop) IDE > drive, a 3.5" optical drive, or any SATA drive, but no 3.5" IDE drive. Of > course, I'll have all the data on the backup drive and can restore from > there, too. > > What's the difference between a 3.5" optical drive and a 3.5" PATA drive? (PATA is what you are calling IDE; both PATA and SATA are varieties of IDE) > This will probably need to wait for the weekend. Tonight I'll rum > memtest86 on the new memory and see if that's the cause of the problems > I've > had since I built this new system. (Of course, the failed motherboard might > have affected the hard drives, too, and the new installation would fix > that.) > > This is a good move. > Thanks, > > Rich > -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
