Cloning IDE to SATA

[stubie_doo]

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

 

[stubie_doo]

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!