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Migrate Old Hard disk to new SATA

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by tobs

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I have a 40Gb Maxtor IDE HD and I'm planning to buy a new SATA HD. How do I migrate the contents of the old HD, OS and all, without reinstalling them in the new HD? Is there a smooth way to do this?

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by hal 9000

Any good cloning utility will clone the drive but the SATA drive will not work as a boot drive because the SATA drivers are not installed on the Cloned HDD so it will not be seen as a boot-able drive once the IDE drive is removed.

It is really better to reinstall all of your data and use the old IDE drive as a solid backup so that you keep your data intact till it's needed and then you can copy your data across. But you'll need to take ownership of the files so you'll need to follow this:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

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by cg it

well cloning as HAl mentions. If you setup the new PC with all programs you can then use the XP file transfer wizard or a 3rd party program to move the important stuff.

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