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Hey guys,

I just got a new computer yesterday, and it's working out great. The problem is that I need to get my files off of my old hard drives. Both of my old hard drives are IDE and my new hard drive is SATA. I hooked up the old hard drive just fine, there was an available port for a ribbon cable. But when I started it up, I get a nice little blue screen before windows boots. I was reading last night, and I picked up that maybe switching the BIOS might help as long as my motherboard will support it. Just wondering if anyone has had the same issue, and what they did to make it work. Thanks in advance.

 
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what kind of computer was the old one? Gateway, and dell harddrives won't run in anotehr computer (guess how I found out) also you may have both on cable select, and it's a conflict set one to master (probably the new one) and the other to slave

 
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I have tried to hook up IDE and SATA drives too, to no avail. Any help would be great. Its a mystery to me.

 
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I got it figured out, but its just weird... seems unstable or somthing, and I cant get some files off my hd...

Knowklew, what kind of computer do you have?

 
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3.0 P4 HT
Asus P4800SE MOBO
2GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
(2) Western Digital WD800JD 7200 RPM SATA150 80GB Hard Drives

 
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Hm.. i was gonna see if you had a similar system to either my roomate or I.. I just got a Compaq 3500+ AMD 64-bit, and my roomate has a HP basically the same as mine. I noticed that Compaq and HP both lock some settings in their BIOS, but what you have to do is make sure your Serial ATA is the one booting (Im assuming that your ATA is your windows partition?) and your IDE isnt. If you have a boot order, change the priority. Im still in the process of trying to get it to work entirely. I got some files off of it, but its just getting weird now. Let me know if that helps.

 
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For sata you need a SATA controller on yo computer, the biggest diffrence between the two is that sata can spin up to 10,000 rpm where IDE can only go up to 7200rpm. so the reason you can't get some stuff off is beacuse the new hardrive is spinning to fast and you dont have a controller on it. just get some ethernet cable and transfer your stuff from computer to computer. it iwll be just as fast.

 
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my computer has a serial ata as its main drive, it was the only one that came with it, so it has a controller already... theres an extra ide port, and i had 2 hooked up and got some data off one, but the other hard drive i was denied permission for some reason... the last time i tried it it denied both of them, so ill have to try it again. Otherwise i am going to do what you said and do it over the network

 
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did you make the second one a slave drive???? because there should be a small switch on the ide drive to make it a slave and not a primary.

 
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I know on mine i set the switch to slave on my IDE drive. And my mobo has support for both SATA and IDE. no matter what i switch the IDE drive to, slave or master i get the same problem, it tries to boot from the IDE drive. I have switched the boot priority in the BIOS also and that really didnt do much if anything. I was wondering if i went into the RAID setup and specified a non SATA drive, would that help?

 
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yeah i have the jumpers correct

 
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Im guessing it would. Anything to get it to boot off of the SATA will make it work. I know I had to twist a few arms to get it to work, including my own :banghead: ... but finally i figured it out. Let me know if it helps