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I'm in the process of building a new PC. It's going to be an Athlon64 3200+, Chaintech VNF3-250 MB, with two 160GB IDE HD's. I also have a Plextor 712A DVD writer, and will be cannibalizing my old Lite-On 52246S.
First question regarding the HD's. I want to copy much of the data from my old PC (two drives, a 40GB and a 20GB) to the new. I was thinking about hooking up one of the 160's to my old PC, but it's using an old Promise Ultra 66 card, and I doubt that it will recognize the 160GB drive (Iam running XP SP2, so it's not an OS issue). I'd hate to burn 20 or so CD's just for a quick data transfer, but I would if I had to. Any thoughts on a better way to go?
Second question. One of the 160''s is ATA/100, the other ATA/133. Both are 7200 RPM and have an 8MB cache. I've heard most newer chipsets support independent IDE device timing, unlike my older board, which would run both devices at the slower speed. My thought was to hook both of these up on the same channel, and put the optical drives on their own channel. Does that make sense? One person suggested putting a HD/Optical on one channel and the other HD/Optical on the other, but just doesn't make much sense to me. Also, I have another device (my trusty ZIP ATAPI drive, that I use for work/home transfers, along with a ZIP parrallel at work) that I'd like to connect. I thought about getting a newer Promise card (Promise ultra 100 TX2, cheaper than the 133 and for what I want, seems like it would work) which claims to support ATAPI and optical drives. Anyone have any experience trying this, good or bad?
Finally, I hate to fork over $50 for an upgrade to Partition Magic 8.0, so how difficult would it be to format my drives at the time of install using WinXP only to do the job. I don't have to worry about data loss, etc. since they're new drives, so I figure this should be OK, though not as easy as PM. Any thoughts or suggestions?
First question regarding the HD's. I want to copy much of the data from my old PC (two drives, a 40GB and a 20GB) to the new. I was thinking about hooking up one of the 160's to my old PC, but it's using an old Promise Ultra 66 card, and I doubt that it will recognize the 160GB drive (Iam running XP SP2, so it's not an OS issue). I'd hate to burn 20 or so CD's just for a quick data transfer, but I would if I had to. Any thoughts on a better way to go?
Second question. One of the 160''s is ATA/100, the other ATA/133. Both are 7200 RPM and have an 8MB cache. I've heard most newer chipsets support independent IDE device timing, unlike my older board, which would run both devices at the slower speed. My thought was to hook both of these up on the same channel, and put the optical drives on their own channel. Does that make sense? One person suggested putting a HD/Optical on one channel and the other HD/Optical on the other, but just doesn't make much sense to me. Also, I have another device (my trusty ZIP ATAPI drive, that I use for work/home transfers, along with a ZIP parrallel at work) that I'd like to connect. I thought about getting a newer Promise card (Promise ultra 100 TX2, cheaper than the 133 and for what I want, seems like it would work) which claims to support ATAPI and optical drives. Anyone have any experience trying this, good or bad?
Finally, I hate to fork over $50 for an upgrade to Partition Magic 8.0, so how difficult would it be to format my drives at the time of install using WinXP only to do the job. I don't have to worry about data loss, etc. since they're new drives, so I figure this should be OK, though not as easy as PM. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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