Cloning of an IDE disk to a SATA disk is likely to have 2 possible problems.
The first is being able to boot the system with the SATA drive recognised to load the cloned image onto it.
The second is getting the system to boot successfully from the SATA disk once the image has been transferred to it, as the image will have been created on an IDE system and will not, therefore have the SATA drivers loaded.
These may very well be handled elegantly by the cloning software, in which case you will have an easy transition, or not - in which case you may be struggling.
As I have not yet had dealings with IDE to SATA I would be very interested in your experience.
SD