At 08:26 PM 4/2/2006, Chuck Andrews typed:
I may by showing my ignorance here as I have not even done research
to learn what PATA is.
Parallel ATA aka IDE drives that run in parallel. The same thing that
you've been running for years. The reason they're called PATA is
because of the advent of Serial ATA [SATA] IDE drives.
I can say this about Seagate SATA (now they claim the drives I am
buying are SATA II -- Wow! Zoom! Zoom!) is plug and go! I just hook
the drive to my Asus P4P800 SE or Asus P5GD2-X motherboard and set
the channel I hook to for Auto in the BIOS and it is as simple as
IDE. I do lots of data copying outside of the Windows environment using Ghost.
Some people just refuse to come out of the dark ages. This I can
understand but I can't understand when a tech does this then claims
they're providing the best when the tech doesn't even know what the best is.
It does not matter what the source or target drive is, IDE, SATA
or External USB, I get the job done and I do not need no Winders'
as Wayne calls that OS.
I can see my SATA Raid 0 in DOS as well. So what? DOS is DEAD & I
certainly don't boot to it on my HD. I can run 32bit ghost aka
ghost32.exe in a cmd prompt window much faster than I can booting to
an ancient floppy disk & run ghost from there or a FAT32 partition
plus NTFS partitions are not only self repairing but have added
security that FAT32 does NOT have but of course one would actually
have to read something to find this info out for themselves.
I bragged all these years about copying at warp speed with Ghost and
without Windows, but now Acronis True Image is impressing me. I am
getting even faster rates copying in Windows from a SATA hard drive
to a USB 2.0 External hard drive, not a straight copy, but copying to an image.
Acronis True Image is actually run on a version of Linux & that's why
they require you to create a boot disk. One could create a bootable
Xp Cd as well & run ghost32 just as easily. BTDT
When it comes to mixing SATA, IDE and USB 2.0 hard drives, are we
having fun, yet?
I repeat, SATA is IDE just that it's connected via a serial interface
instead of the old parallel one.
I know I am! I may get lost up there in Windows, but let me be the
mole and I am in home territory. What works below Windows, usually
works for me in Windows.
There is nothing below Windows [except HAL but that's another story]
if you're on a NTFS partition which is just another reason Xp should
be on NTFS & not FAT32. Xp has been out for nearly 4yrs & people have
been saying this since the start but some mom/pop shops took the easy
way out instead of doing research or developing a native Windows
solution. The work has been done for you. Google is your friend.
For may problems I test outside of Windows. I know it has to work
there for it to work in Windows. One exception. I have seen
situations where Windows XP would detect a hard drive that could
not be detected outside of Windows. Those seem to be rare.
If you test outside of windows there are no guarantees because you
still may not have the correct Windows drivers &/or they may not be
installed properly but if you boot an Xp Cd such as BartPE or my XpPe
then you'll know if it works there then it will work in Windows when
booted from a HD.
Hmmm, does Vista support fat & fat32? <rhetorical>
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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