Having read Saab's link and a dozen others it appears that it is very easy to trip up as the source disk is IDE so I will be 'missing' the SATA drivers. Does that make sense? So, this is my plan - I'm sure you can tear it apart
I have one SATA drive already, just storage at the moment, so not bootable
I will install the new SATA drive
I will load a fresh Windows XP on it and check it boots. SATA drivers are on the mobo CD.
I will then clone the IDE to the SATA
By my reckoning, that should give me a bootable cloned SATA drive?
There is talk of 'sysprep' and other obscure stuff, but will my 'simple' solution work?