My motherboard is K8T Neo2 Series ATX Mainboard and I am having 80 GB SATA Hard drive. There are 2 SATA ports (SATA1 and SATA2) and my current hard drive is connected to SATA2 port. I want to backup my existing hard drive (mirror image) into a new SATA hard drive using Ghost or any other imaging application. So I can connect my new hard drive into SATA1 port and will it work? After connecting my new hard drive parallelly into SATA1 and booting windows from my old hard drive, will the new hard drive be recognised? Should I need to format my hard drive and then use Ghost application or directly I can use? Please do the needful. Thanks.
your system may only boot from SATA1, although, you may be able to set the boot priority of HDDs (i can't check your mobo manual because i'm having PC problems) SATA = Serial Advanced Technology Attachment personally, i'm not familiar with software like ghost, because i don't like M$ & Windoze
No.. I mean boot from my old hard drive... but after windows boots... Will it not recognize my new hard drive that is connected parallely from another SATA port? MSI Computer Corp. - Product - Can connect up to 2 Serial ATA drives - Support RAID 0, RAID 1 So will I be able to mirror image all data to new hard drive?
In a non-RAID mode, Windows will see the second hard drive in Device Manager. After that, you can make use of the RAID 1 function and mirror the old drive to the new one or use Ghost or Acronis Disk Image to mirror the image. If you use RAID 1, you don't need to format it if you use the RAID function straight from BIOS. Parallel: if you mean alongside the old drive, yes, you'll do that. Now, to better direct you in the best means, it would be helpful to know one thing or clarify it. Are you using the new drive as a strict backup, or do you wish to upgrade to this drive? Also, what drive are you currently using and what drive are you adding?
Yes I am going to use my new hard drive as a strict backup. The thing why I am doing is that my old hard drive is 3+ years old and incase it fails then I can use my new hard drive without losing any programs or applications. I am going to use either 250 GB SATA or 320 GB SATA drive.
I heard that I can do RAID setup where both drives are mirror images of each other.. I just want to mirror image my new hard drive and then disconnect it and keep it in one safe place(my cupboard maybe ) So if in future I lose my old data due to some virus or drive failure then I can plug in my new drive and ready to use. So how to do that RAID setup? Please help me on this. Alternatively, if I use Acronis imaging software and create an image of my old hard drive in new hard drive, will I be able to extract that image in the new hard drive so that I can boot windows from my new hard drive? Thanks.
