Help w/ moving hard drive, and with mp3 player

[penguinrusty]

I am in the process of selling my current computer. However, I do want to keep all of my settings. In my new computer, I'm going to have a SATA setup. This computer also has SATA ports. Is there some way that I can just make sort of a duplicate of my current hard drive onto the SATA hard drive that I am going to put into my new computer? Also, I would have to reformat it and install windows on it before moving anything on it, wouldn't I? Here's what I was going to do: Take current hdd out of my current computer. Plug in SATA drive, and format it and install windows on it. Next, I'll hook my IDE drive back in, making the SATA drive a slave and the IDE a master. Then, I whould be able to just drag and drop, wouldn't I? I've done it w/ 2 IDE drives, but not with 1 sata and 1 ide. Finally, I'm getting an MP3 player, but I am going to get it before I sell my computer and I want to put some songs on it as soon as possible. It is a Creative Zen Extra. If I use it in my current computer, and I sell my current computer, can I use it in my new computer too? I know that ipods have a seizure if you try to do that, but as long as I de-athorize my current computer before I sell it, it should be OK, right? Thank you!

[hotbot315]

i believe it will work just as the two ide drives did and also i had a creative mp3 player and it could use any computer to copy songs to hope that is of some help....

[krosenqu]

I am in the process of selling my current computer. However, I do want to keep all of my settings. In my new computer, I'm going to have a SATA setup. This computer also has SATA ports. Is there some way that I can just make sort of a duplicate of my current hard drive onto the SATA hard drive that I am going to put into my new computer? Also, I would have to reformat it and install windows on it before moving anything on it, wouldn't I? Here's what I was going to do: Take current hdd out of my current computer. Plug in SATA drive, and format it and install windows on it. Next, I'll hook my IDE drive back in, making the SATA drive a slave and the IDE a master. Then, I whould be able to just drag and drop, wouldn't I? I've done it w/ 2 IDE drives, but not with 1 sata and 1 ide. Finally, I'm getting an MP3 player, but I am going to get it before I sell my computer and I want to put some songs on it as soon as possible. It is a Creative Zen Extra. If I use it in my current computer, and I sell my current computer, can I use it in my new computer too? I know that ipods have a seizure if you try to do that, but as long as I de-athorize my current computer before I sell it, it should be OK, right? Thank you!

I did this exact same thing. I made the new hard drive the primary and the old one the slave or secondary. Then I just used Windows Explorer to drag/drop what I needed. I did scratch install almost everything though. I just took the files (setting files mostly) and moved them over as I needed them. I then will use it for all of my dcuments and settings files.Your MP3 player (Creative) should work just fine. It depends on software you use on it though. You might try searching the Creative FAQ's.

[WESTOZ racer]

Please do a complete virus scan and anti-spyware scan of ur old drive before moving files...I know a couple people who moved dormant viruses to a new computer and it played havok.

Anyway, you dont need to set SATA hdds to slave with an ide device. SATA works off a completely different controller, which communicates thru the pci bus to other parts. No need to make sure that one is master and tother is slave ;)

[krosenqu]

Hence my sig :lol:

[penguinrusty]

Thanks westoz! Just a little side note: I'ts pretty sad that my mp3 player has a bigge hard drive than my computer does :rolleyes: