I currently have 2 Seagate hard drives, one is normal ATA and one is SATA going through a converter that came with my Abit mobo. I ran some tests on my HD's and noticed my "converted" HD was lacking speed going through the converter. I then decided to get a "real" SATA drive and decided on the Western Digital Raptor 74.3 GB drive.
As is stands right now (Raptor not installed) I have a HD that is my main drive and one that I use for back-up. My questions are:
1. Can I take the converter off my "main" HD and just plug it in to the mobo's ATA slot and not have to do anything other that changing pins for Master and Slave?
2. Can I clone my main HD to my new Raptor and then use the Raptor as my main HD w/o having to do the whole OS/updates/mozilla/yada, yada, yada d/l'ing (4+hours) install?
3. If I can clone my HD, how, where, and what software will it take?
Thanks in advance to helpfull advice.
As is stands right now (Raptor not installed) I have a HD that is my main drive and one that I use for back-up. My questions are:
1. Can I take the converter off my "main" HD and just plug it in to the mobo's ATA slot and not have to do anything other that changing pins for Master and Slave?
2. Can I clone my main HD to my new Raptor and then use the Raptor as my main HD w/o having to do the whole OS/updates/mozilla/yada, yada, yada d/l'ing (4+hours) install?
3. If I can clone my HD, how, where, and what software will it take?
Thanks in advance to helpfull advice.