Cloned HD Question

[trainmaster5]

I was running out of room on my Maxtor 250gb PATA so I bought a Seagate 500 gb SATA drive. After trying to install it in my case I found it conflicting with my video card so I left the new SATA in the case and installed my original in a USB case I had. I tried to use Seagate DiscWizard to clone my PATA to the new SATA but although both drives were recognized in the software it would not allow me to clone USB to SATA. I d/l a trial of Acronis True Image and I did clone . Now my new drive works OK... but it shows up as a SCSI drive and on the taskbar under a" safely remove hardware balloon" as C, SCSI drive.Should I leave it alone or go into BIOS or some other setting and try to change it?

 

[myocardia]

Actually, you can use the new Seagate DiskWizard (which is actually Acronis TrueImage 10) to do the cloning. You just have to let it make a bootable CD, then boot to that CD, and it will work fine. I use it all the time, and it works great.

The reason you've got a "safely remove" icon is because you cloned a USB drive, and your internal hard drive is now setup through Windows to be removable. Here's how to change that, at least with Windows XP: open up My Computer, then right-click on your C: drive, and select Properties from the drop-down box that will appear. Then click o the Hardware tab (at the top), and select Properties again. Now, click on the Policies tab, then select "Optimize for performance", and also put a check in the box beside "Enable write caching on the disk", and OK your way back to My Computer.

IIRC, you have to do a reboot to make the changes take effect, but I can't remember now if that's required, or not.