This is a frequent topic of discussion. When mixing IDE and SATA drives in an SATA system, the system must boot from the SATA device.
If I understand your question correctly, you can certainly put an IDE drive in the 3100 using the cable that the optical drive is on, copy the data from that drive to the SATA drive, or backup an image of the OS drive to the IDE drive.
>If I understand your question correctly, you can certainly put an IDE drive in the >3100 using the cable that the optical drive is on, copy the data from that drive to >the SATA drive, or backup an image of the OS drive to the IDE drive.
I'd like to know more about that. Are you sure there is no way to boot an IDE hard drive?
The usual senereo is I put on massive virus protection, anti-spyware, install all Windows updates, and tell them to use Firefox instead of IE, etc. But they don't aways listen, open up whatever e-mails they feel like (that aren't safe), etc and then their computer gets infected.
Or it's a machine i've never seen before and they want me to fix it, have a ton of files on it they don't want to loose, but can't tell me exactly what folders everything is in.
Often I don't know exactly what software they were using, where all of their data files are, etc. And they don't either.
Because of this, I like to take out the drive and make it a slave on another system so I can see exactly what is on it. Even better, i'll tell them to purchase another drive (which are normally cheap and sometimes i'll have a spare IDE drive garound) and then we can deal with getting all their files later. Takes long enough in one session just fix the machine & protect it in one sitting.
With SATA I don't do this anymore. And from what i've read, it seems there aren't any advantages to SATA unless you have a better than usual drive. So I wish Dell would still offer IDE or at least let us boot from an IDE drive.
derek101700
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March 17th, 2006 23:00
im not sure that SATA drive can go on a IDE cable
Im SURE of IDE drive can go on an SATA drive,
yes you can boot from what u said : "make the IDE CDRW/DVD the slave, and setup an IDE hard drive as master and boot Windows off of it."
there is no master or slave on SATA drives
osprey4
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March 18th, 2006 12:00
This is a frequent topic of discussion. When mixing IDE and SATA drives in an SATA system, the system must boot from the SATA device.
If I understand your question correctly, you can certainly put an IDE drive in the 3100 using the cable that the optical drive is on, copy the data from that drive to the SATA drive, or backup an image of the OS drive to the IDE drive.
Nate Goulet
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March 18th, 2006 15:00
I'd like to know more about that. Are you sure there is no way to boot an IDE hard drive?
The usual senereo is I put on massive virus protection, anti-spyware, install all Windows updates, and tell them to use Firefox instead of IE, etc. But they don't aways listen, open up whatever e-mails they feel like (that aren't safe), etc and then their computer gets infected.
Or it's a machine i've never seen before and they want me to fix it, have a ton of files on it they don't want to loose, but can't tell me exactly what folders everything is in.
Often I don't know exactly what software they were using, where all of their data files are, etc. And they don't either.
Because of this, I like to take out the drive and make it a slave on another system so I can see exactly what is on it. Even better, i'll tell them to purchase another drive (which are normally cheap and sometimes i'll have a spare IDE drive garound) and then we can deal with getting all their files later. Takes long enough in one session just fix the machine & protect it in one sitting.
With SATA I don't do this anymore. And from what i've read, it seems there aren't any advantages to SATA unless you have a better than usual drive. So I wish Dell would still offer IDE or at least let us boot from an IDE drive.
osprey4
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March 18th, 2006 21:00