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Moving data from IDE to SATA

Zeke

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Ok, here's the deal. right now I have a 60 GB IDE Hitachi drive, I'm going to buy a Western Digital 74 GB SATA drive. I wanna take all of the data from the 60 GB partition on this hard drive and move it into the soon-to-be ~74GB partition on the Western Digital, how can this be done in the easiest, cheapest, most simple way possible?
 
use Western Digital's Lifeguard utility, it has a clone feature (free)
 
I just used the clone feature, it's not working too well :p My windows xp install is all screwed up now, can't install or remove thigns anymore. Thinks my drive is a D drive when it's clearly a C.. *shrugs* guess I'm gonna have to format
 
I'd be very careful using the "clone" feature of the WD installation disk, particularly if you're transferring data from an IDE hard drive connected to the motherboard's chipset-native IDE controller to an SATA hard drive that's connected to an SATA port that was dropped from a separate SATA controller chip. You see, most hard drive installation programs will only recognize motherboard-chipset-native controllers correctly (in fact, the installation program that comes with the SATA Raptors may recognize only Intel SATA controllers correctly), and some will not even recognize separate, add-on controllers at all whatsoever. The SATA controller chip that's optional on most current nForce2 motherboards is considered an "add-on" controller for the purposes of the HD installation programs (since they were dropped from the PCI bus rather than directly from the core-logic chipset).
 
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