SCSI hdd copy to Serial hdd

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Easton King

I am trying to clone my old hdd, which has a parallel connector with a
ribbon cable, to my new machine's hdd, which has a serial connector to
the motherboard. Is there any way to get both of these hdd's into the
same box even though they have different connection methods? Is there a
converter? Is there any other way to get all of my programs from my old
disk onto the new one?
 
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Patrick Keenan

Easton King said:
I am trying to clone my old hdd, which has a parallel connector with a
ribbon cable, to my new machine's hdd, which has a serial connector to
the motherboard. Is there any way to get both of these hdd's into the
same box even though they have different connection methods? Is there a
converter? Is there any other way to get all of my programs from my old
disk onto the new one?

If your old drive is a SCSI drive, your new machine will have to have a
matching SCSI adapter to connect it. Then it will be seen as any other
drive. If your old drive is a standard IDE drive, your new machine will
have IDE ports (the CD/DVD drives will be on one). Your system's BIOS may
have special settings to use both IDE and SATA drives, so check the manual.

One of the other ways to do this is to connect both machines over a LAN, via
a router (or direct with a crossover network cable). Share the drive on
the old machine, and just browse to it from your new machine. Locate the
files you need and copy them. This is probably the best plan if your drive
is in fact an older SCSI drive; you won't have to deal with adding cards to
the new machine and any compatibility issues with that.

But, neither of these methods will get many of your programs from your old
system. These will have to be re-installed on the new system, because
simply copying the files will not transfer required registry entries.

HTH
-pk
 
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Anna

Patrick Keenan said:
If your old drive is a SCSI drive, your new machine will have to have a
matching SCSI adapter to connect it. Then it will be seen as any other
drive. If your old drive is a standard IDE drive, your new machine
will have IDE ports (the CD/DVD drives will be on one). Your system's
BIOS may have special settings to use both IDE and SATA drives, so check
the manual.

One of the other ways to do this is to connect both machines over a LAN,
via a router (or direct with a crossover network cable). Share the drive
on the old machine, and just browse to it from your new machine. Locate
the files you need and copy them. This is probably the best plan if your
drive is in fact an older SCSI drive; you won't have to deal with adding
cards to the new machine and any compatibility issues with that.

But, neither of these methods will get many of your programs from your old
system. These will have to be re-installed on the new system, because
simply copying the files will not transfer required registry entries.

HTH
-pk


Easton:
I'm assuming your old HD is a PATA disk.

Since you've indicated you wish to clone the contents of your old HD over to
the new SATA HD, I'm assuming that you want the new HD to be, in effect, a
duplicate of your old HD including the OS as well as all your programs &
created data on the old HD.

If that's your objective, why not simply install your old HD in the new
machine and then use a disk imaging program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost
or Acronis True Image, perform a disk-to-disk clone, i.e., clone the
contents of the old HD to the new one? Another alternative is using the disk
copying utility that's provided by the manufacturer of your new HD to carry
out the disk cloning operation. If you purchased a retail boxed version of
the HD that utility would have been included. Otherwise, it should be
available for download from the manufacturer's website.

You could then leave the old HD installed and use it as a backup/storage
device if that's what you want.
Anna
 

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