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Speedwagon

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Looking to step up to SATA from IDE and need to know if I can use WD disk from IDE drive?
 
I almost think I sortakinda might just understand that... maybe.

You can use the Seagate Disc Wizard to transfer the content of whatever hard drive you currently have to a new Seagate drive, yes, and then you'll be able to boot the PC off the new drive.

Hope that's what you needed to know.
 
Joe Average said:
I almost think I sortakinda might just understand that... maybe.

You can use the Seagate Disc Wizard to transfer the content of whatever hard drive you currently have to a new Seagate drive, yes, and then you'll be able to boot the PC off the new drive.

Hope that's what you needed to know.
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You are right that was what I was needing answered.
Except I'm using a WD drive that is OEM and I have some old software from when I installed the IDE a couple of years ago.
 
So get the software from Western Digital that allows you to copy/move your stuff from one drive to the other.
 
Joe Average said:
So get the software from Western Digital that allows you to copy/move your stuff from one drive to the other.
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OP do this by going to WD site and download the utility. it can be put on floppy or burned to a cdr

 
Problem solved:
Got a Retail Box SATA WD 4000 gig hard drive.

Thanks for all the help!!
 
Speedwagon said:
You are Right it is a 400 gig WD.
I installed this weekend and all went well.
Now, my question is now can I use my old IDE with the Sata Drive?
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yes, you can have both sata and IDE in the same system.

Id recomend formatting the IDE drive so you dont get confused with 2 copies of the same data.
 
So, since I have my CD drive as the master on the IDE cable I can just set my ide hard drive as slave and the motherboard will still see it?
 
You dont have to change anything on the IDE chain. IDE and SATA and on different channels.
 
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