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MasterplayerC
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I just bought a set of 640GB AALS drives for my main rig.
Problem is I've already got a 74GB Raptor for my OS, and two non-matching 500GB drives for storage only. But my mobo only has 4 sata ports.
I want to transfer the data off both current drives to the faster newer drives, and then use the old drives as the new ones fill.
I pulled one of the old storage drives and installed both new ones, and everything is recognized, formatting now.
I tried hooking the old drive I pulled up to our cheapodell, and figured I wouldn't have a problem since its data only, but the cheapodell doesnt recognize the drive in BIOS or in vista drive management.
I figure worst case scenario, once I finish transferring data off the first old drive, I can swap em and take data off the other, but I'm wondering if I did something wrong regarding installing the drive in the cheapodell.
Problem is I've already got a 74GB Raptor for my OS, and two non-matching 500GB drives for storage only. But my mobo only has 4 sata ports.
I want to transfer the data off both current drives to the faster newer drives, and then use the old drives as the new ones fill.
I pulled one of the old storage drives and installed both new ones, and everything is recognized, formatting now.
I tried hooking the old drive I pulled up to our cheapodell, and figured I wouldn't have a problem since its data only, but the cheapodell doesnt recognize the drive in BIOS or in vista drive management.
I figure worst case scenario, once I finish transferring data off the first old drive, I can swap em and take data off the other, but I'm wondering if I did something wrong regarding installing the drive in the cheapodell.