SATA HD upgrades

**Carboncine** · 02-09-2005, 12:24 PM

Greetings and salutations to all:

I have Asus P4P800Se motherboard with 40Gig Hard drive(IDE) and slave 250meg HD from an old computer. Now I wanted to upgrade to 80gig SATA HD, and use it as primary boot hd and 40 Gig secondary. Do I set the 40Gig(IDE) as slave??? Of course I will not use any longer 250megs. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated!!!

TTYL

Carboncine

**MadMaster** · 02-09-2005, 01:56 PM

SATA does NOT go onto your IDE cable. SATA is a different kind of cable that connects to a different connection on your motherboard.

You will probably have to consult your manual or the Asus website to get it working correctly. You are also going to have to reinstall Windows.

**meine** · 02-09-2005, 03:37 PM

MadMaster, I think if you use Norton Ghost you can just transfer the information to the new hardrive, but Im not sure since this is from ATA to SATA so I don't know if it's different

**baddadnv** · 02-09-2005, 04:36 PM

Yeah, in your situation, I would probably stay with the IDE set-up - Although it is older tech, your 'opening a can of worms, by mixing drives, especially with an ASUS Motherboard - ASUS is lagging WAY behind other manufactures in the SATA technology, on their Motherboards.

Randy Burton

**rhodges** · 02-10-2005, 05:25 PM

Not meaning to take issue with anything others have said, but I have just about the same MB that you do and have extended what you suggest.

I have four 80GB harddrives in a Raid0 array configurtion including two SATA drives, plus two UIDE drives (See attached hardware listing). In addition to this I have two IDE drives for backup purposes. I don't know that they could work any better and am very pleased with them. I guess in my ignorance, I do not know what newer, or other manufacturer's MB's offer that is not included on your board.

Your ASUS manual gives full information on the hookups and options, plus there are a number of posts regarding your possibilities.

Good luck:
RTH

P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
Pentium 4, 3.2G CPU
1G PC3200/400 Memory
WinXP Pro
DirectX9.0c
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB
Secondary Graphics Diamond Stealth III S540 PCI
21” Pro Series P815 Primary Monitor off of ATI Card
21” Samsung SyncMaster 1100P Plus Secondary Monitor off of ATI Card
19: CTX third Monitor off of Stealth III PCI card
ATI Catalyst 4.10 Drivers for ATI Card
S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 Drivers for Stealth III card

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2 each Segate 80GB SATA + 2 each 80GB U100 Harddrives in Raid0 array Configuration (4 drives)
1 each Segate 40GB SCSI Backup Harddrive
1each Segate 40GB UIDE Backup Harddrive
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Mustek 600 III EP Plus Scanner
CH Pro USB Pedals
CH USB FlightSim Yoke
Microsoft FFB2 USB Joystick
Micro cordless Keyboard
Logitech cordless mouse
FS9
Fsgenesis Landclass and Mesh
High Speed Cable Internet/email Service with Router
Zone Alarm Firewall
AVG Antivirus
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound to Creative Inspire 5.1 5200 Speakers
Six each Case Fans
All harddrives have individual Cooling fans
Enermax Model EG465P-VE Power Supply with dual fans
SP-2
FS9 Patch 9.1.0.40901

**MadMaster** · 02-10-2005, 10:53 PM

That is correct. (Today I learned about Norton Ghost at work) If you have norton ghost you can make a copy of everything on your HD and transfer that over to a new HD.