Drive Image 5.1 + IDE + Sata

[Robert Houghton]

My new motherboard will support sata. To begin with, I will be just using the ide connections. I always use Drive Image to do a disk to disk clone for backups. Later on I will put 2 identical sata drives onto the sata ports (NO RAID). I then would like to use Drive Image to do a disk to disk copy from my ide C drive onto the sata drive. I will pull the ide drives off the machine and put away. I hope then that my sata drive is my new C drive and can boot up to it after changes in the bios. Then I hope to be able to clone my other sata drive like I did in the past.

Now after all that, can this be done? Is it possible Drive Image can't read sata drives? I was just wondering if anybody else has tried this. I gone to a few forums looking around, but couldn't come up with my situation. Almost most of these topics were dealing with raid, which I don't want any part of.

Thank You Bob H.

[glc]

The jury is still out on this one. It looks like if you have the ICH5, it should work, but if it's ICH5R or a 3rd party SATA chip (Promise, Sil, etc.), you may have problems.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread/t-56999.html

[Robert Houghton]

I read the link and I can see it's sort of up in the air. Although I do have some hope because they were talking mostly about doing raid. I do have the ICH5R, which is not good news, maybe.

Thank You Bob H.