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Old 3rd December 2008 | 13:50
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rallymania
 
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RE SATA and IDE
have a root around in your BIOS on the new motherboard
on many modern motherboards the SATA controller has a "compatablity" mode that makes the SATA controller present as IDE to the OS and fools into think nothing has changed

that may make your transition to new drive simpler
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