Some HDD questions/support

[tyR]

My old computer's Mobo fried, but I still want the information it had on its HDD. Is there any way to have both my new computer's and the old one's HDD hooked up at the same time (Current is SATA, old one is IDE), and picking which to boot from at startup? Or do I have to disconnect/reconnect each one every time? Furthermore, I'm afraid to just hook up my old HDD to my new computer, for fear it will break something. This is probably incorrect, but I can't help thinking that the HDD will screw with my new hardware with its wrong/outdated drivers.

The best option for me would be to copy all the old information I need to the new HDD, but I don't believe there is any good option to do that without 2 PCs/an external HD. Am I correct in this assumption?

Finally, is it possible to have a SATA HDD and a IDE HDD hooked up at the same time (permitting I reformat the IDE drive after I get the information I need off of it)?

My Mobo is a ASUS P5B Deluxe Wifi/AP. The SATA drive has Vista Home Premium, the IDE drive has XP Pro. I did some googleing, but didn't find anything specific enough for me. If you need any other information just let me know. I'm not a computer idiot, so just some simple answers or steps will do fine. Thanks much.

 

[Farva]

Yes, you can run both IDE and SATA at the same time. Just hook up your older drive into your new system. Make sure you do select what is the boot drive though. After you hook the IDE drive to your system, copy the information off onto your SATA and format the IDE drive. Then put the information back onto your IDE drive.

I know full well that you can run both IDE and SATA in a system.

 

[tyR]

Awesome, thank you.

 

[gud4u]

I've cloned back and forth between an SATA/SATAII drive and an older IDE drive, and with the SATA drive run from both the SATA and SATAII connectors.

Works either way.

I used Acronis True Image 10 in all instances, running from the Rescue Disk DVD.

Hope this helps!