connect the New SATA HDD, boot into Windows and open Acronis, bottom left of Pick A Task Window, Select: Manage Hard Disks Select: Clone Disk Choose the Automatic Cloning Feature, if the SATA drive is new and blank the cloning will start automatically, when...

of using the new drive as your boot drive. What happens here is durning the clone process, the entire drive, including the boot sector is cloned to the new drive. But it removes the boot sector from your old drive in the process, again this is due to license...

add the SATA drive, image the PATA to SATA using True Image 8, then change the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive, and finally remove the PATA drive. What else would I need to do to get XP to boot? Thanks!. Archived from groups:...

my existing (IDE) setup, then sysprep it and then clone the install to the SATA drive or is there an even easier/better way? Can I simply clone the install to the SATA drive (as above) but re-run windows 2000 SP4 setup (as if I was going to install...

boot drive. I'm not sure whether this is the case with the 4600, but suspec it probably is - it's not a major issue, since you can clone the existing drive to the SATA and use it as the boot drive using the software that comes with the drive. You...

item is Boot Priority Sequence. Find it. I suggest you set it to try the optical drive first, the SATA HDD you just installed second, and no other things. That way it will boot from the optical drive IF it has a bootable disk in it (as during your Install process),...

Cloning a SATA RAID 1 array over to a SAS RAID array?. I have a domain controller that is fast running out of space. Also, I would feel better if it had some brand new faster drives in it as we are getting write bottlenecks. I was thinking cloning the...

No doubt the SATA bus is better but as I've explained that really does not matter for a single drive because the PATA electronics are not the bottleneck. Your new system would work perfect with one new SATA "boot" drive, your new "old" PATA "data" drive on...

IDE windows sees IDE drive as C:\ - SATA boots to SATA-harddrive\windows, SATA windows sees SATA drive as C:\ But then i found the stumper. because win XP builds the MBR during install based on weather you have IDE drive or SATA drive, i am unable to boot...

come back in day, with so many, use best ones till jerk like juniper or telco, hack it down, then leave it for software fixes still in works & use next best or start again. CLONING IS ANSWER TO ATTTACKS,once cloned, turn puter off & unplug clone sata until...