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January 16, 2014 at 03:42 PM
slayer_

IDE to Sata cloning

by slayer_ . Updated 12 years, 4 months ago

I want to replace the old 120gb IDE drive in my computer with an SSD to get some additional life out of it as I am short of funds right now.

My board supports both IDE and Sata, when I built the machine in 2008 I used my old hard drive from 2003 (need to send this thing back to seagate to put in a museum, still has 95% on SMART tests.).

The system is running windows xp 32 bit.

Can I clone the IDE drive to the Sata drive, or would that break windows afterwards? Or is it a bad idea in general (why)?

I’ve heard XP might not support TRIM (don’t know if that’s important or true)

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