Can't clone IDE to SATA

[Sysjack]

I just got a new Western Digital 160GB SATA drive, and I managed somehow or other to get it to boot to a windows install on it. Thing is, I have an IDE drive with a clean install of windows with all my essential drivers installed that I'd like to clone to it. Norton Ghost 2003 doesn't want to play ball, so I'm asking for help making it work or if it's possible. I've heard of Ghost cloning successfully and not from IDE--->SATA.

P4 2.6C clocked stock
Abit IC7-Max3
1gb Mushkin Black Level 2 PC3500
WD 160GB SATA
WD 120GB ATA100 (8mb)
WD 30GB ATA100 (2mb)
AIW 9800 Pro
Audigy Gamer

[Qwestman]

This is something that I want to do as well. I need to copy all my stuff from my 13 GB IDE drive onto a 80 GB SATA drive. I just need to find a way to do it.
I do have a copy of Ghost from an older motherboard CD driver CD . I just have never used Ghost before.
Is there an easier way to copy IDE to SATA? Thanks for responses.

[Faustous]

I assume that Ghost is not seeing the SATA drive. One solution is to pick up an SATA to IDE convertor. This will allow you to connect your SATA drive into an IDE drive; then Ghost should not have a problem with the install. You can then remove the convertor (and return it, hehe).

Cost about $20 or so. Found them at my local comp shop, gtcomp.com but I am sure that you can find them on ebay or other places.

[Sysjack]

Actually Ghost is seeing the drive, it just fails to respond when the PC DOS loads to begin the copy. It hangs up on the initial screen with no display of any transfer or anything, just the blue and gray screen.

[EvilGenesys]

heh, glad im not the only one with a problem such as this.

would a process such as the one listed on this (http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/transfer.html) page work for an IDE to SATA drie?

[Lazn_Work]

heh, glad im not the only one with a problem such as this.

would a process such as the one listed on this (http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/transfer.html) page work for an IDE to SATA drie?

There is a reason that is for Windows95.. doing it that way shortens all your files to 8+3 chars. This will not work for anything newer than 95..

you can try it by booting into windows (so that xcopy32 is available otherwise you only get xcopy and not xcopy32) and from a cmd prompt use: xcopy32 c:\*.* d: /h/i/c/k/e/r/y this will copy everything over and keep the long file names, but you will still have to mark the partition active to make it bootable.

I have twice successfully used the above method to do this. (and once it did not work)

Also there are free utilities to do some of this, try downloading the utils from the HD MFG, usually these will do a simple drive copy. (eg maxblast or WD datalife tools) http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

==>Lazn