molko

Just a quick question guys, before i screw anything up.

I am correct in sayin that i can create a ghosted image from a SATA drive onto an IDE drive with no problems ? or will there be controller issues ?.

What i want to do is :

a) Create a ghost image of a SATA drive
b) Ghost the image onto an IDE drive
c) Then remove the SATA and use the IDE instead
d) maybe change the Motherboard aswell.

My mate wants to buy my SATA drive and i have spare IDE which i will use, i think the difference in speed is marginal between the two (well for what i use it for anyway).

I may change the motherboard as well

I cant really see there being a problem, but any advice/lessons learnt etc...would be a great help

cheers

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

It should work, but no guarantees. When the IDE drive boots then Windows should simply not load the SATA drivers, but default to M$ IDE ones. Depending on the m/b you might then need manufacturer drivers for the IDE. But I can't see it would hurt to try.


M

RoosterRoo

Moloko,

There is no reason why this should not work. Are you using the ghost utility from windows or are you going to use a ghost boot disk. The BIOS should load the SATA drivers eitherway.

Scooby-Doo

Don't think it will work. When Windows boots it will load SATA drivers and error. You will need to boot off the XP disk and select repair existing copy of windows which should fix the problem.

Won't take long to do a disk copy and try anyway and with the SATA drive safe your not loosing any data.

Mine failed going from IDE to SATA and carried out the above and was up and running in 20 minutes

DazV

I was thinking of using ghost on our server at work - could I quickly ask:

Could I ghost the scsi hard disks (2x 6GB) onto a big external usb ide drive (100GB) for safe keeping.

Then in the event of a problem with either scsi hdisk, I could simply copy the ghost image back on ?

Frosty The Snowman

I moved from an IDE boot drive to a SATA boot drive using Ghost. I was a little surprised it worked tbh as I have heard that windows does not like moving hard disk drivers.

And for Daz, yes in theory it should work although I have had problems ghosting a hardware SCSI array. Remember you will need the drivers for the USB and drive on your ghost boot disk.

DazV

Frosty, its NOT a scsi array - sorry if I gave that impression. Its simply 2 hard drives each with a single partition.

As for needing the drivers, would it be easier if I used a spare computer to perform the copy from the ghost image back to the scsi drive ?