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From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" 
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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:22:04 +0000
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In message , 
james@nospam.com writes:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:42:19 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> wrote:
>
>>If you have two connectors, you can almost certainly have four (E)IDE
>>drives: each IDE cable can support two devices, either master and slave
>>(determined by the position - usually absence or presence - of a link on
>>the drives themselves), or cable select. (Master/slave is the commonest
>>in my experience.)
>>>
>
>There is only one IDE connector on the motherbd. One of them goes to the
>CD drive. There are two SATA connectors too. Those go to the hard
>drives. But I plan to clone two IDE drives by unplugging the SATA
>drives. Thats why I cant plug in two IDE drives and a CD drive.
>
Ah, when you said "I need both those connectors ..." I thought you meant 
on the board. I now see you mean on the (single) cable.

Yes, I can get your inclination to use a floppy - and if that works, 
fine. I think you can put Macrium or Acronis on bootable USB sticks, but 
that motherboard probably won't boot from USB. (You can also get SATA 
CD/DVD drives - in fact, I think they're commonest these days.) Or 
temporarily connect both EIDE hard drives to another computer, and use 
that to do the cloning.

Hang on though: You say "There is only one IDE connector on the 
motherbd. One of them goes to the CD drive." One of them? You have the 
CD drive and the HD connected to the motherboard - are they both on the 
same cable, going to one connector on the mobo? If they're each 
connected to a separate connector on the mobo, you can connect up to 
four EIDE objects - you just need cables with three connectors on them. 
(One for the mobo, two for the drives.)
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