IDE to SATA the story continues...

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Okay so my nice new SATA Hard Drive arrived and I have installed it and began using the Copy Drive function in Norton Ghost 10 to Copy a 40GB IDE drive, my (C) drive, to the SATA drive. The new drive has been installed as required checked the BIOs to check everything was okay, started up windows and began using the Copy Drive function.

Went through the set up wizard and everything seems to be going okay, but then it just stopped, no error code just unable to continue copying C drive.

When I try again it comes up with the error message cannot contiune with windows active and tells me to continue in recovery environment, which does not have copy drive.

The new drive is unformated but shows as primary in the copy drive wizard where as when I first tried it showed as nothing, and Nroton are far from helpful.

SO this is a bit long winded, any suggestion?
 
Hi if I understand you your suggesting I creat a backup to the new drive. would I then be able to boot from it? Also do I need to formate the drive before copying an image onto it?
 
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