SATA and IDE

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I have a 60G IDE drive that I have been using forever, I just got a 250G SATA
drive and I was wondering if there was any way to copy the old drive to the
new one. The software that came with the drive is susposed to make the SATA
drive a boot disk and copy the entire old drive over, but I can't boot off
the drive. The only way I can get it to boot off the SATA is if I do a New
install of XP, which leaves me out in the cold as far as all my programs go,
I really don't want to have to load them again any Ideas on how I can make an
exact copy of my old drive on my new drive and get it to boot?

 

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"etcsolar" <etcsolar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:771F7C7C-E26E-40D6-A9E8-273ACC44C20F@microsoft.com...
>I have a 60G IDE drive that I have been using forever, I just got a 250G
>SATA
> drive and I was wondering if there was any way to copy the old drive to
> the
> new one. The software that came with the drive is susposed to make the
> SATA
> drive a boot disk and copy the entire old drive over, but I can't boot off
> the drive. The only way I can get it to boot off the SATA is if I do a
> New
> install of XP, which leaves me out in the cold as far as all my programs
> go,
> I really don't want to have to load them again any Ideas on how I can make
> an
> exact copy of my old drive on my new drive and get it to boot?

Unless it is a really dated box, you should be able to change the boot
sequence in the
BIOS.

 

[Jerry]

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Change the boot order in the BIOS, explicit instructions should be in the
motherboard manual.

"etcsolar" <etcsolar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:771F7C7C-E26E-40D6-A9E8-273ACC44C20F@microsoft.com...
>I have a 60G IDE drive that I have been using forever, I just got a 250G
>SATA
> drive and I was wondering if there was any way to copy the old drive to
> the
> new one. The software that came with the drive is susposed to make the
> SATA
> drive a boot disk and copy the entire old drive over, but I can't boot off
> the drive. The only way I can get it to boot off the SATA is if I do a
> New
> install of XP, which leaves me out in the cold as far as all my programs
> go,
> I really don't want to have to load them again any Ideas on how I can make
> an
> exact copy of my old drive on my new drive and get it to boot?