Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : G6JPG-255@255soft.uk Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:22:04 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <2e49F9HceGAaFw0R@soft255.demon.co.uk> <9gka0d55a85fgg6d62v76qacjftdvtei72@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="73502b226fd176a11853b5791f961fea"; logging-data="19382"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18MRzmIfASDWuX8VXxEJDxz" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:VzAWbkv6XGNvpoYxcayEyVzefOM= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134498 In message , james@nospam.com writes: >On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:42:19 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" > wrote: > >>If you have two connectors, you can almost certainly have four (E)IDE >>drives: each IDE cable can support two devices, either master and slave >>(determined by the position - usually absence or presence - of a link on >>the drives themselves), or cable select. (Master/slave is the commonest >>in my experience.) >>> > >There is only one IDE connector on the motherbd. One of them goes to the >CD drive. There are two SATA connectors too. Those go to the hard >drives. But I plan to clone two IDE drives by unplugging the SATA >drives. Thats why I cant plug in two IDE drives and a CD drive. > Ah, when you said "I need both those connectors ..." I thought you meant on the board. I now see you mean on the (single) cable. Yes, I can get your inclination to use a floppy - and if that works, fine. I think you can put Macrium or Acronis on bootable USB sticks, but that motherboard probably won't boot from USB. (You can also get SATA CD/DVD drives - in fact, I think they're commonest these days.) Or temporarily connect both EIDE hard drives to another computer, and use that to do the cloning. Hang on though: You say "There is only one IDE connector on the motherbd. One of them goes to the CD drive." One of them? You have the CD drive and the HD connected to the motherboard - are they both on the same cable, going to one connector on the mobo? If they're each connected to a separate connector on the mobo, you can connect up to four EIDE objects - you just need cables with three connectors on them. (One for the mobo, two for the drives.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ..... each generation tends to imagine that its attitude to sex strikes just about the right balance; that by comparison its predecessors were prim and embarrassed, its successors sex-obsessed and pornified. - Julian Barnes, Radio Times 9-15 March 2013 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .