Harddisk Connectivity (was: Re: [mostly solved] Fish won't work (long))

[Eberhard Roloff]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Thursday 16 April 2009 7:35:43 am Tony Sivori wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:25:08 -0400, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> I haven't followed this post, however, I transferred several gb of data
>>> another way.  I removed the HDD that contained the data and installed it
>>> on my new computer and just copied and pasted from the old to the new. 
>>> It was fast and clean.  If you are doing this from a laptop to a desktop,
>>> it wouldn't work, but one PC to another was fast and problem free.  It is
>>> an alternative if you continue to have a problem.
>> In my case, the old computer is IDE, the new computer is SATA.
>>
>> --
Hi,

imho it is better to use an adapter like this:
http://www.everythingusb.com/newertech_usb_2.0_universal_drive_adapter_12299.html

This will connect IDE and SATA Disks to any computer that has usb. So 
you do not need to mess around with opening up your computer case, just 
for transferring data or rearranging partitions.

It is slightly slower (due to usb being slightly slower), but imho this 
does not matter.

I am using it all the time when playing around with harddisks from 
customers' machines.

Kind regards
Eberhard