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SATA RAID and old IDE HDD

by Sherif_H Sep 5, 2007 5:14PM PDT

Hi Guys,
I am having an intel Mobo D975XBX2, with intel Matrix Storage enabled for 2 HDD SATA RAID. Win XP professional. My Mobo has only 1 IDE connecter, which I use for the DVD.

However, I have an old IDE HDD, which has files that I need to transfer to the new SATA RAID HDDs. I removed the IDE cable for my DVD and connected it to the IDE HDD, but windows does not load. I tried everything, from slaving the IDE HDD, playing in the BIOS, nothing worked.

A guy here said, that he tried to make the IDE HDD as secondary, but unfortunately my Mobo has only one IDE connecter, so how to do it??

Note that in the normal condition, the SATA RAID drives work perfectly and win XP loads normally.

Thanks,
Sherif

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When this happens I...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 5, 2007 9:33PM PDT

I place the old drive in an USB drive housing.

Bob

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Thanks a lot , man !!!

by Sherif_H Sep 8, 2007 3:01PM PDT

Hi R. Proffitt,

Tons of thanks, it cost me around 20 USD and is definetely worth it!! I spent hours on playing around in the bios settings.

100% hassle free. Successfully transferred all my files and folders from the olde IDE HDD to the new SATA RAID drives.

Thanks again,
Sherif

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Glad it helped.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 8, 2007 11:02PM PDT

It also gives the old drive new purpose.

Bob

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