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Old 1st August 2010 | 21:21
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Rushed Approach
 
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If you ask me attempting to clone an IDE drive to a SATA drive is mad.

Whilst you might get it to work, why would you want to? You'd be much better off partitioning the SATA drive into separate data and OS partitions, copying all your data to the data partition from the IDE and then reinstalling the OS in the OS partition (newly fully formatted, not quick formatted) of the SATA after leaving the IDE drive well out of it (you can always add it back in later for data backup). You then have a fresh copy of the OS that has "seen" the SATA drive as it installs and therefore has the correct drivers and registry settings.

Yes you will have to reinstall your programs and drivers, but you will end up with a much stabler and faster running system than trying to clone on old HD to a new one IMHO.
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