Cloning IDE to SATA

stubie_doo · 14 Jun 2006 at 20:40

Hi

I am planning to clone my existing IDE drive to my new Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB SATA2/300 16MB Cache.

What is the best way to go about cloning from IDE to SATA

I currently dont have any SATA drivers installed but im not sure at what stage to install them.

I obviously dont want to lost any data and understand that starting windows with both drives fully cloned is a bad idea.

Any advice on this matter will be appreciated

nO}{8 · 14 Jun 2006 at 22:21

is your ide drive your current master with windows?

danoliver1 · 14 Jun 2006 at 22:28

I used true image to clone an old 120gb sata hd to a 320 sata2 hd which i use as my boot drive now. very good program

xtreme.BIN · 14 Jun 2006 at 22:40

I use Nortons Ghost to do this on a regular basis.

Leporello · 22 Jun 2006 at 10:54

stubie_doo said:
Hi

I am planning to clone my existing IDE drive to my new Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB SATA2/300 16MB Cache.

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I currently dont have any SATA drivers installed but im not sure at what stage to install them.

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Any advice on this matter will be appreciated

Unless I'm very much mistaken I think you will need to format and re-install your system if, as you say, you have no SATA drivers installed. These drivers need to be installed during the installation of Windows. You hit the F6 key to install these drivers from a floppy or other removable disk. As far as I'm aware, it's not possible to install these drivers from Windows.

deadeyedic30 · 22 Jun 2006 at 13:12

I use drive copy 4, for same thing. Worked a treat.

stubie_doo · 25 Jun 2006 at 13:03

Thanks for all the advice.

The SATA drivers were already installed so i popped the new hard drive in formatted and used acronis true image to clone the drive. It automatically assigned it to C: so i didnt need to change anything. All i needed to do was to change the boot order in the bios and switch the old ATA to slave.

Job done!