Copy files from old HD to New HD

[Garland]

I have near new Dell with ME. It has a 20GB Ultra ATA Maxtor HD set to CS. The old HD is a 1.6GB Samsung. I set it to CS and tried to boot. No Go. Set Maxtor to Master and Samsung to Slave. No Go. Went into Bias and Auto Detect is seeing the Samsung in Slave position. Any ideas?

 

[alan51sr]

Maxtor had a downloadable program at there web site, go to;

http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/TechnicalProcedures/24023.html,

download MaxBlast ll to a floppy disc, with main drive as slave and new drive to be copyed onto, rin the program. I just did the same thing with a Samsung to Maxtor, it ran perfectly.

 

[Jakespeare]

OR...... just unhook your CD-ROM, and put the OLD-SAMSUNG in there temporarily.

There may be an issue with using an OLD HD like that with the 80-PIN ribbon cable on your NEW HD (ATA/100 or ATA/66).

 

[Garland]

Thanks to both of you for the help. I now have a plan of action. Much appreciated.