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superlumeny · 05-16-2007, 02:29 PM

Thank you all for your responses...TO CLARIFY...the new drive being a SATA-II.. must boot ...off the Controller card...the question boils down to...will cloning the SATA-II from the 20GB IDE work to get it recognized as the system (boot) drive...or should I just get a new IDE drive that the CMOS will recognize...????...the CMOS only sees the Controller Card in the.. ADVANCED..boot-order CMOS....as for keeping the old drive...I am not sure there is much spin left on the old IDE drive...it clatters when it seeks...none of my other Maxtor drives ever made this much noise....I am afraid I will just get it..all SET..and then it will die....

05-16-2007, 02:29 PM	#4
superlumeny Member (2 bit) Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 3	Thank you all for your responses...TO CLARIFY...the new drive being a SATA-II.. must boot ...off the Controller card...the question boils down to...will cloning the SATA-II from the 20GB IDE work to get it recognized as the system (boot) drive...or should I just get a new IDE drive that the CMOS will recognize...????...the CMOS only sees the Controller Card in the.. ADVANCED..boot-order CMOS....as for keeping the old drive...I am not sure there is much spin left on the old IDE drive...it clatters when it seeks...none of my other Maxtor drives ever made this much noise....I am afraid I will just get it..all SET..and then it will die.... Last edited by superlumeny; 05-16-2007 at 02:37 PM.