aaronp
April 7th, 2009, 05:05 AM
Hi all,
I'm running Hardy Heron 8.04 and have 2 IDE hard drives, with 2 partitions each.
My motherboard blew up and I now have no way of accessing the data on my drives.
The PC was getting old so I decided to think of this as a good opportunity to buy a new one.
Problem - the new PC has only a SATA hard drive (preloaded with Vista and other MS bloatware) and no IDE slots on the m/b.
I was hoping to just open the case, plug in my two IDE drives and boot into Ubuntu like nothing ever happened but now it looks like I will have it do it a bit more round-a-bout than that!
Can anyone suggest the best options for getting my data and basically returning myself to where I was before the m/b died?
I'm keen to keep using Ubuntu again and let the Vista gather dust but want to figure out the best way to go about this...
Also, keen to get use out of my two IDE drives as they are both reasonably new and I'd like the storage!!
I was thinking of getting an IDE HDD enclosure and plug it in via USB to effectively make my old drives external USB drives but because they are all formatted to ext3 will the enclosure be able to cope?
thanks in advance
Aaron
I'm running Hardy Heron 8.04 and have 2 IDE hard drives, with 2 partitions each.
My motherboard blew up and I now have no way of accessing the data on my drives.
The PC was getting old so I decided to think of this as a good opportunity to buy a new one.
Problem - the new PC has only a SATA hard drive (preloaded with Vista and other MS bloatware) and no IDE slots on the m/b.
I was hoping to just open the case, plug in my two IDE drives and boot into Ubuntu like nothing ever happened but now it looks like I will have it do it a bit more round-a-bout than that!
Can anyone suggest the best options for getting my data and basically returning myself to where I was before the m/b died?
I'm keen to keep using Ubuntu again and let the Vista gather dust but want to figure out the best way to go about this...
Also, keen to get use out of my two IDE drives as they are both reasonably new and I'd like the storage!!
I was thinking of getting an IDE HDD enclosure and plug it in via USB to effectively make my old drives external USB drives but because they are all formatted to ext3 will the enclosure be able to cope?
thanks in advance
Aaron