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hey all, first time postin so ill get right to it. i just got a new sata hdd and i want to use it as my primary drive, i have it hooked up in my pc right now but its not doing anything for me but just sitting there. so what my question is can i transfer the data on my ide hdd to my sata hdd becuase i need my ide hdd for my other pc, thx in advance....

btw, im running windows xp pro, asus A7N8X-deluxe mobo. the ide drive is a 80gb western digital and the sata drive is a 120gb samsung

has a program called Data Lifeguard Tools 11 that will copy one HDD to an other.

hey thanks gecko it worked great, only problem is windows is reading it as a 111gb drive, not 120, is that just windows for yah or is there something im missing, drive is working great though, took about 5 minutes to copy all the files from my other drive and now this drive is my primary, thx again

ye my pc picks that up to ive got a 160GB HDD but it only reads 127GB ive read somewhere that there is a patch out to fix that any one heard of it?

axion,
The short answer is there's two different measurement formats used.
Decimal (GB) and binary (GiB) formats.
Binary is used by Windows and decimal is used by the manufacturers.
Both the manufacturer and Windows are giving you the "correct" number.

1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes
1 Megabyte = 1024 x 1024 = 1048576 bytes
1 Gigabyte = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1073741824 bytes

Therefore 120,031,477,760 bytes = 111.78 GB.

thx gecko.....i understand it now