Hard Drive Migration

**Capt. Fozdike** · December 26, 2010, 01:11 AM

Okay, so I have just ordered my new pc parts. Now my current hard drive is an IDE hard drive and my new motherboard doesn't have an IDE port so I've ordered a new HDD (Which I was going to do anyway) so what I want to do is backup ALL of my data from my current HDD and port it to my new hard drive. This way I don't need to reinstall half of my crap again.

Now, my question is, what's the best way to do this? I'm using Win 7 so is System Backup good enough to do it?

**Ishan** · December 26, 2010, 08:07 AM

Fozzy you are asking a way to transfer from IDE to SATA or asking a better software option for making backups?

**Simetrical** · December 27, 2010, 11:25 AM

The new computer doesn't even have one IDE port for the optical drive? If not, it will be a bit of a pain to move the data, since you won't be able to hook up both disks to the same motherboard.

**Capt. Fozdike** · December 31, 2010, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Simetrical

The new computer doesn't even have one IDE port for the optical drive? If not, it will be a bit of a pain to move the data, since you won't be able to hook up both disks to the same motherboard.

Yeah that was why I was wondering what the best way to do it is since the motherboard I picked doesn't have an IDE port (Lucky I got a SATA DVD drive

).

If that's the case like Sim mentioned then i suppose you have to buy a external casing and transfer data via USB port onto new one and use the old one as an external HDD.

So I'd be spending another $40 for a HDD case? Dayum. I might be able to find an old HDD Enclosure in my box of goodies from my golden years of PC building.

**mrcrusty** · December 31, 2010, 02:04 AM

There are cheap little IDE to SATA converters on eBay for like $2-3 but I can't confirm whether they actually work or not.

**Ishan** · December 27, 2010, 01:40 PM

If that's the case like Sim mentioned then i suppose you have to buy a external casing and transfer data via USB port onto new one and use the old one as an external HDD.

**Capt. Fozdike** · December 31, 2010, 02:36 AM

Okay, so I found an old HDD enclosure but it's firewire and neither of my motherboards have a firewire port, is there a firewire to USB converter around anywhere?

**Ishan** · December 31, 2010, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by Capt. Fozdike

Okay, so I found an old HDD enclosure but it's firewire and neither of my motherboards have a firewire port, is there a firewire to USB converter around anywhere?

Yeah you need a cable for that something like this:-

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As for crusty's suggestion that works great as well and is cheap:-

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