I know that many among you are well versed in the arcane art of PC wizardry , so here's hoping someone may be able to help . I'm running a regular IDE disk and just purchased a second disk , this one is SATA . All I want to achieve is both being visible at the same time , so I can transfer my data to the SATA disk . Both / either disks are running fine , and are formatted and have XP installations . I had hoped that both would be visible and I could copy my data from IDE to the SATA disk , but there are too many variables for my inexperienced mind to calculate . These include : Jumper settings BIOS settings Cable arrangements .The annoyance is that once achieved , all I wanna do is transfer my data and then run just the SATA . Any tips / ideas ?