lifeguard23
Nov 20th, 2007, 01:04 PM
I posted earlier about wanting to increase my overall storage but I’d like to avoid going to an external hard drive. I’m running WinXP with a 40GB drive as my C-Drive and a 200GB as a D-drive (I also have 2 DVD RW drives as an E and F). I want to add a 500GB drive. The plan was to:
1) Ghost a backup of my existing C Drive
2) Install the new 500GB drive and set as C (probably partition it slightly)
3) Ghost my old C image onto the new 500GB drive
4) Cross my fingers and hope it would work without any issues
So I started looking around at drives to buy and came across the Western Digital SE16 500GB SATA2 from ncix.ca (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=23266&vpn=WD5000AAKS&manufacture=Western%20Digital) which seems like it would be perfect. Where my knowledge breaks down is on the whole SATA thing. I was hoping someone could give me some insight.
I have an ASUS A8N-E motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=455&l1=3&l2=15&l3=171) which appears to support SATA drives.
I’ve just never installed a SATA drive, used one as a C-drive, etc. My question is, can I install the 500GB SATA drive and still Ghost my old C drive onto it? If I plug in the SATA will it then support it as a 3rd hard drive on my system or am I still limited to 2 hard drives? I really don’t need the 40GB drive anymore so it’s irrelevant if I keep it (I figured I would just keep it as a backup with a working OS on it just in case I got into problems with the new install). As you can probably tell, I don’t know much about the process and I’ve always been impressed with the feedback on this forum.
Thanks
1) Ghost a backup of my existing C Drive
2) Install the new 500GB drive and set as C (probably partition it slightly)
3) Ghost my old C image onto the new 500GB drive
4) Cross my fingers and hope it would work without any issues
So I started looking around at drives to buy and came across the Western Digital SE16 500GB SATA2 from ncix.ca (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=23266&vpn=WD5000AAKS&manufacture=Western%20Digital) which seems like it would be perfect. Where my knowledge breaks down is on the whole SATA thing. I was hoping someone could give me some insight.
I have an ASUS A8N-E motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=455&l1=3&l2=15&l3=171) which appears to support SATA drives.
I’ve just never installed a SATA drive, used one as a C-drive, etc. My question is, can I install the 500GB SATA drive and still Ghost my old C drive onto it? If I plug in the SATA will it then support it as a 3rd hard drive on my system or am I still limited to 2 hard drives? I really don’t need the 40GB drive anymore so it’s irrelevant if I keep it (I figured I would just keep it as a backup with a working OS on it just in case I got into problems with the new install). As you can probably tell, I don’t know much about the process and I’ve always been impressed with the feedback on this forum.
Thanks