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At 06:32 PM 6/6/97, Paul Khoury wrote: >Don't forget that the 2.5" drive connectors are DIFFERENT than standard 3.5" or 5.25" IDE/EIDE drives, so >you will need an adapter. Yup--forgot to include that until a follow-on message. An adapter can be had for about $5 to $7. Also should be careful about which direction you put the adapter *on*, since there is a power input involved. > You will also need to find out the switch settings for Master and Slave, if 2 >IDE/EIDE drives are in the same system. Sort of... I didn't know what jumper to mess with and there wasn't any instructions. However, since many (most?) newer desktop machines actually have 2 IDE controllers in them (to accomodate IDE-based CD-ROMs that have become so popular), you can just put each 2.5" drive as "master" on their own seperate IDE buses. Since you boot with a floppy anyway (to run Drive Copy), disconnecting the existing boot drive poses no real issue. Then after the drive gets copied, you can pull out the original, reconnect the desktop's drive, and keep the new drive in there for any additional stuff you might want to copy off of the desktop's drive (or run Partition Magic from off the desktop's drive, as I did). >That is probably something I could do if I had usable 2.5"->3.5" adapters, but because you said you are not >technical, you may or may not feel comfortable opening your desktop, or are unsure of what to do next. >Randy's idea is definantly feasible, though, but remember, if you think you might get confused or unsure, have >a technical friend along with you. But honestly, what alternative is there? All other methods, in terms of being "technical", are far and away worse! The only other thing I can think of is to pay someone else to do it. Speaking of which, I'll do it for you--for a fee. ;-) ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle Director of Electronic Commerce, Marshall School of Business at USC