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Re: Changing over to a new PC .....
Posted by Ron (more from Ron) on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:58:34
In Reply to: Changing over to a new PC ....., GFW3pedals 
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Without seeing the old PC, my guess is that it has a PATA (40-pin parallel) hard drive, and I'm 99% sure whichever new PC you buy, will have a SATA (serial) drive. Most PCs are built to support 2 hard drives with cabling and power connectors already present. All you normally need to do is remove the cover, set the old drive as a "Slave", boot the new PC and copy files from the old to the new drive. But with different technology drives, this is not easy.
Ifyou do have both serial and parallel drives, you might try this. I have some external USB hard drives, which all use PATA drives. If I need to copy from an older PATA drive, I just put the PATA drive to be copied in the USB drive, plug it in and copy it that way.
I have adapters to connect laptop drives to PATA disk cables. I don't know it they make PATA to SATA drive connectors, because this would be the easiest way to copy... Ron
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Posts in this Thread:
- Changing over to a new PC ....., GFW3pedals , Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:00:45
- Re: Changing over to a new PC ....., Drake, Fri, 7 Jan 2011 07:21:41
- Re: Changing over to a new PC ....., Tim, Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:51:58
- Does your old PC come up and stay up long enough...., TKC, Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:59:03
- Re: Changing over to a new PC ....., Ron, Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:58:34 <-- Viewing This Message
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