Hello all.
My old 120 gig HDD is crumbling under the amount of data that is on it and probably needs a full wipe and possibly retirement (rather than re-use). This HDD is PATA (IDE) and the replacement is a SATA HDD.
I want to install the SATA HDD as a slave first of all so I can format it and partition it they way I want using the XP install on the PATA HDD. Next would be to move the data I need from the PATA to the SATA HDD. Then install XP on the new SATA HDD.
Would any of you forsee any issues so far?
Now if I keep the old 120 gig PATA HDD (prior to wiping to ensure I have captured everything I need off it), how do I go about setting boot sequence for the HDDs if the PATA HDD set to master and the SATA HDD is also set to master? Is this like dual boot or would PATA/SATA take priority?
Just don't want to end up in a situation where I'm stuck trying to recover data from a HDD with no partition...(yes it has happened in the past before)


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