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_God_ · 10-13-2006, 05:04 PM

I have a 180 gig SATA hard drive. I'm getting close to filling it up, so I picked up a 300 gig one on sale. Afterward, it occurred to me that I have never cloned one of these, and I only have one SATA connection in my computer.

Will I need to buy a card with another ATA connection to clone my existing drive? If so, how much should one cost?

And finally, is this a really stupid question?

shakran · 10-13-2006, 05:51 PM

the answer is, it depends. Do you have an IDE/EIDE port on your motherboard?

Most SATA drives will also have EIDE/IDE connectors on them. You can hook it in that way.

Dilbert1234567 · 10-13-2006, 07:17 PM

I’ve never seen a hard drive with both a SATA and a PATA data connector, just a dual power connector, i just took a look and nothing. Depending on your motherboard, and on the OS you will clone the drives under, you may be able to get away with using a USB to SATA connector. or, you could always get a PATA drive, and clone to that, then clone from the pata to the new sata. You could also get a PATA TO SATA converter

I own a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812156014

This could also solve your troubles http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812156010

cyrnel · 10-13-2006, 08:09 PM

Easy question back at you. Are you sure the board only has one SATA connector? No others specified for RAID?

This is just in case. It'd sure make the transfer simpler.

Dilbert, my current favorite: http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0383

10-13-2006, 05:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
_God_ Banned Location: You're kidding, right?	Easy Hard Drive Question I have a 180 gig SATA hard drive. I'm getting close to filling it up, so I picked up a 300 gig one on sale. Afterward, it occurred to me that I have never cloned one of these, and I only have one SATA connection in my computer. Will I need to buy a card with another ATA connection to clone my existing drive? If so, how much should one cost? And finally, is this a really stupid question?

10-13-2006, 07:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	I’ve never seen a hard drive with both a SATA and a PATA data connector, just a dual power connector, i just took a look and nothing. Depending on your motherboard, and on the OS you will clone the drives under, you may be able to get away with using a USB to SATA connector. or, you could always get a PATA drive, and clone to that, then clone from the pata to the new sata. You could also get a PATA TO SATA converter I own a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812156014 This could also solve your troubles http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812156010 __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

10-13-2006, 08:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Easy question back at you. Are you sure the board only has one SATA connector? No others specified for RAID? This is just in case. It'd sure make the transfer simpler. Dilbert, my current favorite: http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0383 __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

10-13-2006, 05:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	the answer is, it depends. Do you have an IDE/EIDE port on your motherboard? Most SATA drives will also have EIDE/IDE connectors on them. You can hook it in that way.