Tranfering a HDD with data on it

salman

salman

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Hi could some one tell me if this would work:

I have computer A which has two hard drives one which is IDE and one SATA.
The IDE is formatted but empty the SATA hard drive has XP and all my other data on it.

I have computer B (the one in my signature) with one SATA hard drive.


What I want to do is to make a backup of all the data on computer A to computer B. So would it be posssible to; on computer A, transfer all my data that I want to transfer, from my SATA to my IDE and then put the IDE into computer B. And then transfer from the IDE onto the harddrive which is on computer B.

Thanks a lot to anyone who replies.
 
Sorry I don't think I made myself clear in the last post (i had a bad headache) basically what i want to know is can i transfer an IDE hard drive with data on it from one pc to a second pc, and will the second pc comfortably recognize the harddrive with all the data on it.

cheers.
 
if the HDD has an OS, your going to have to search for it if you slave it.. but if its like a backup HDD then it should be easier. there should be no probs recognizing, maybe a found new hardware but thats probabyl it.
 
You can't just copy the hard drive like that, you have to use a utility (like ghost) If you just want the data, you can copy that directly but you'll have to install an OS.
 
But can you just slave it? And copy the info? I mean like if he had info directly on the HDD.. like word documents on it, no OS or anything..
 
Yes as long you can copy whatever you want, even the OS it's just the OS will not boot if you copy it like that.
 
The alternative method available requires software for direct system to system transfer by usb or firewire. It depends mainly on just how much do you want to see copied or transferred from A to B. Creating iso files with the files and folders you want to see available on the B machice compresses data into large archives.

With a dvd burner you drag onto dvd-rw rewritable disks or burn permanent copies available at any time. Then you simply drag from disk onto either A or B whenever. You can make things even easier by moving the A sata to the B case for direct copy from drive to drive there while booting from the B host drive.
 
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