I recently built a new system for my relative with the following motherboard:
GIGABYTE "GA-8I915G Pro" i915G Chipset Motherboard for Intel LGA775 CPU
Her old computer consists of an old Gateway MicroATX BRY Essential 566C, which has 64MB of memory and a 566MHz Intel Celeron processor running Windows 98 (so it's going to be a FAT32 Filesystem, right?), while the new one is running Windows XP Home Edition.
As you can see there are only two ATA ports on the the Gigabyte (new) motherboard, and the setup that I have going is using one ATA port for the optical drive set as slave and the master being the hard drive. The other obviously being connected to the FDD. My relative wants to transfer all of her pictures and documents from her old Gateway HDD to this new one (the old Gateway does not include a CD burner and my attempts at connecting a new CDRW/DVD-R combo in order to burn information to CDs was to no avail, and she has 56k so sending them as e-mail attachments would take forever). So the only way I'm thinking that I can transfer information is via an extra ATA controller so I can connect her old hdd to the system.
With her old Gateway hdd in the new system I can just drag-n-drop information from the old hdd to the new hdd and be set. Then I can format the old HDD in the NTFS filesystem and just set it as an extra partition so she has an extra 3-4 GB of space (not much, but why not?
). With all of that done I should have all of her old pics and docs in the new hdd and extra space.
Basically my two questions are am I right in thinking that this whole procedure is possible? I'd assume that ATA 133 is backwards compatible with all prior versions of IDE hdds. And lastly, what is the best ATA controller (I really only need one port) that I can get that's within $25-$30 give or take a few bucks.
Thanks for all of your help!
If you need any information just let me know.
GIGABYTE "GA-8I915G Pro" i915G Chipset Motherboard for Intel LGA775 CPU
Her old computer consists of an old Gateway MicroATX BRY Essential 566C, which has 64MB of memory and a 566MHz Intel Celeron processor running Windows 98 (so it's going to be a FAT32 Filesystem, right?), while the new one is running Windows XP Home Edition.
As you can see there are only two ATA ports on the the Gigabyte (new) motherboard, and the setup that I have going is using one ATA port for the optical drive set as slave and the master being the hard drive. The other obviously being connected to the FDD. My relative wants to transfer all of her pictures and documents from her old Gateway HDD to this new one (the old Gateway does not include a CD burner and my attempts at connecting a new CDRW/DVD-R combo in order to burn information to CDs was to no avail, and she has 56k so sending them as e-mail attachments would take forever). So the only way I'm thinking that I can transfer information is via an extra ATA controller so I can connect her old hdd to the system.
With her old Gateway hdd in the new system I can just drag-n-drop information from the old hdd to the new hdd and be set. Then I can format the old HDD in the NTFS filesystem and just set it as an extra partition so she has an extra 3-4 GB of space (not much, but why not?
). With all of that done I should have all of her old pics and docs in the new hdd and extra space. Basically my two questions are am I right in thinking that this whole procedure is possible? I'd assume that ATA 133 is backwards compatible with all prior versions of IDE hdds. And lastly, what is the best ATA controller (I really only need one port) that I can get that's within $25-$30 give or take a few bucks.
Thanks for all of your help!
If you need any information just let me know.
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