Only problems that seem to be encountered are: Where the BIOS on the system motherboard doesn't want to recognise the drives as bootable I.E. it will not run the software that handles the OS startup selection software from it.
and some RAID setups That is not a problem if simply using the drive as an application, or data store, but if you want to boot from it be careful to check it does work in the intended system before losing the SATA drive HOWEVER Consider very carefully if you want the entire 200GB to be a single partition That's a lot to backup, and restore, and where are you going to put the backup image and are you always going to do incremental backups, or do quarterly full partition images Also with FAT32 partitions there is a limit to the max size of the partition (about 30B), and files of about 2GB so you should, in my opinion consider 20-30Gb for the OS partition, that should normally be a primary partition, but don't have to be unless it's also going to be the partition holding the booting software I'd then put in a spare partition for a copy of the working OS partition and make the rest of the drive a single extended partition split into about 50Gb NTFS partitions holding your applications (office etc) on 1, your personal (typed in) data on another, and then use the remainder as a store for backup images, MP3's video etc. It's also worth assigning any CD/DVD drive a letter up near the end of the alphabet so it doesn't change as your partitions get altered. there's lots of software that doesn't recognise that the CD drive letter may change. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: Re: copying old ata to sata > thanks > > > > Carl Houseman wrote: > > You can use drives connected to both (P)ATA and SATA at the same time. > > You can use any disk cloning software you wish. > > > > Carl > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
