ATA to SATA harddrive

[paulza]

I have a sata harddrive connected to the sata connector on my new ASUS A8V motherboard. I want to connect my old ata hard drive to the ide connector to copy data from the old to the new drive. The old drive is windows 98, the new XP. As these drives are connected to different motherboard connectors, do I still make one the master and how do I get the computer to stop trying to start from the old HD.
Any help would be appreciated.

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[Creston]

You still need to Master the old IDE drive, because it will stand alone on the IDE controller, otherwise it won't be recognized. SATA no longer uses master / slave settings.

As for which one will boot, hmm, that's a good question. I take it both drives were once a primary partition that booted (one into 98 and one XP)?
If so, that might make things difficult. You could try it and see what happens, obviously. If it boots into 98, it won't really matter since you won't see your XP drive (if you've used NTFS on it), and if it boots into XP, well, that's what you want anyways, right?

But if it's getting confused between the two primary active partitions, you may have to get a tool such as Partition Magic to remove the active setting from the 98 partition. I don't think (but I may be mistaken) that you can do this with fdisk...

I guess I wasn't that much help, sorry

Creston

 

[airfoil]

Connect the old HDD to the IDE bus, then go to the BIOS and set the SATA drive to be the first boot drive. The SATA drive will receive priority in the boot order, while the IDE drive (irrespective of whether its set to Master or Slave) will not.

You can start XP, delete the Win98 installation and copy files - I suggest doing a quick format of the old drive assuming you want to get rid of 98.

 

[paulza]

Boy you guys are quick. Thanks a ton for the help.