Re: Fitting a SATA disk on pre-SATA motherboard

"Orson Cart" <brno223@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:29:41 +0100, Jim Howes
<sewoh.mij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

at startup.
If it's a data disk only, then it's just a matter of loading drivers, and
persuading the BIOS not to try and boot from it.

I think that he will use it as a data disk. Presumably the controller card
will come with a disk for the drivers. Is it likely that the BIOS will try
to boot from it?

Shouldn't do. You need to set the mobo BIOS to boot from the card for that to happen



I've seen those converter dongles but it's not always clear whether they
are for converting a SATA disk to an IDE interface, or vice versa - or
maybe that doesn't matter because they work either way round? I'm
concerned that they seem to stick out some way from the back of the disk
and may get in the way and be vulnerable when I'm mucking about inside the
PC - or even that there won't be enough room for one.

Am I right in thinking that the controller card may be the most elegant,
albeit most expensive, option?


I've used one here - it was seamless. In the end I reinstalled Windows on my IDE
drive, installed the drivers for the SATA card, so that Windows would recognise the
card and drive, then used Ghost to ghost an image of my IDE boot drive to the SATA
drive, set the BIOS so that it would boot from the SATA card/drive and used the
faster SATA drive as my boot/program drive.

A bit fiddly but worth it overall IMHO

--

Andrew Sayers
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