Re: S-ATA to IDE speed?


"dannysdailys" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Bryanwrote:
> How long should it take to copy between drives? Say 8-9Gb data take
> 2hours
>> or more?
>>
>> Dim 8400 3GhzHT, 1G ram, 800Mhz bus Sata included in system, IDE
> added from
>> old machine, on DvdR cable.
>>
>> TIA
>> Bryan
>
> The first thing to do is to make sure your SATA port has it's driver
> if it needs one.
>
> Make sure you have the old drive set to slave. I'm assuming you're
> doing a new windows build on the new drive.
>
> The copying should take around 15 minutes. It's pretty fast going
> hard drive to hard drive and that's the only way I do it.
>
> By the way, you can include this drive into the system as a data
> drive. I don't know how old it is, or what speed it's capable of.
>
> Best of luck.
>\


Ack!

The IDE drive should be set to Cable Select. No Dell uses Master/Slave


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