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Originally Posted by clavus
OK, I think we all missed an important detail. If your boot drive (the one w/ your OS) is IDIE, you can not make your machine recognize a second drive if it is SATA. You gotta have another IDIE. Or at least this is what I was led to believe after a long adventure of installing, updating, screwing with BIOS, researching, calling friends, de-installing, driving all over the place, returning, buying another drive and eventually PAYING somebody just to make the &*$%#! work.
Fucking A. No matter how prepared I think I am, I always get my ass kicked by something like this.
Thanks for the effort. Before today, I didn't even know IDIE from KFC. Now I know.
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well, no. all you have to do is install the SATA drivers, then force the system to re detect the mass storage devices on the next boot, shut it down, image the PATA drive to the SATA then boot the SATA.
except in one rare exception, if the system board does not allow you to boot from a sata device.