Copying a SATA HD?

[Swiftlegend]

I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a normal SATA HD 120gb 5400rpm i think. I found a spare OCZ Apex SSD 250gb kicking around and have decided to put that in my laptop instead. Unfortunately I don't have a recovery drive but instead a recovery partition. So i believe I have 2 options.

1. Create recovery disks through the VAIO utility and hope that i can use those to install XP on the SSD via the bios.

2. Unplug both HD's connect them to my desktop and mirror the SATA HD to the SSD.

I am starting to favour option 2 as the optical drive on the laptop isn't liking the blank DVD's im feeding it. Would everything work normally if I simply copied the HD to the SSD??? Would it still perform as an SSD etc...???

Anyone see any problems in doing this? (opt 1 or 2) Thanks for your help

 

[Samh6]

i had a similar issue and resorted to option 2 using a ghosting program however after i ghosted the drives and attempted to boot from the new drive windows flagged an error on start-up to which i had to boot from a windows repair disk which worked leaving an exact copy of what i had before hand.

 

[EGuitarStar]

Acronis should be able to achieve what you need without any issues.

 

[Swiftlegend]

ok thanks I'll give it a go