Migration from ide to sata boot drive

[Matt897]

I've got an older 80 gig drive running as my boot drive on a server 2008 R2 machine running hyper-v with WHS.
I recently upgraded motherboards and now I have more than enough sata ports available and I would like to migrate the system drive over to another (Sata) drive of the same size (its an extra laying around).

Is there an easy way to do this that is reliable? I thought maybe I could mirror the drives - then remove one - and hopefully convert it back to a basic or dynamic disk without loosing information - however I doubt that would go over very smoothly!! I've also looked at imaging software - but i figured i'd try here first

Thanks

 

[ghost6303]

maybe im missing something but the question sounds very simple- you want to copy an IDE hard drive to a new SATA hard drive?

would you like an easy way, or the easiest way? none of which involve RAID/mirroring.

take both drives, put them in a computer both as secondary (non-boot) drives. you can do this by booting from a live CD or physically put them in another computer. then just copy the data.

 

[Matt897]

I was under the impression I would need to do some sort of cloning, since in the past when i've done that i've had problems loading windows post-install.