SATA Replacing 2 x IDE Drives Advice Please

[topgazza]

I'm about to order a 400Gb Segate SATA drive to replce my two 160 gb IDE drives. looking for tips on the most efficient way to do this. I have both drives backed up using Ghost on an external drive. So do I

1. Install SATA drive as master or slave and just Ghost copy from C to SATA, then ditto from D to SATA. remove both IDE drives and bingo!

2. Install SATA as master or slave and Ghost copy C to SATA (making it a bootable drive?) remove C and copy D to SATA

3. Can I just restore my external Ghost copy to SATA targeted the single partion I will create on the SATA

Any help appreciated

 

[topgazza]

I tend to like the mulitple drive approach as well. especially as HDs are so cheap it seems a shame not to.


I've just had a big clean up and have a mixture on both drives, so I guess one big restore onto the SATA and then sort out the folders. I can always add partitions in later if I want to seperate some things but I would only feel the need to do it for "neatness". I currently have about 110 gb on my C drive and about 90gb on my D. My external NAS drive is 250Gb by the way. So for a while my Ghost backups can continue

Also a 400gb SATA would do me fine for now and of course I can always add another later........

Thanks guys

Oh nearly forgot, when I install the SATA drive I assume I need to format it as per the XP disk management method as NTFS as normal?