penguinrusty

I am in the process of selling my current computer. However, I do want to keep all of my settings. In my new computer, I'm going to have a SATA setup. This computer also has SATA ports. Is there some way that I can just make sort of a duplicate of my current hard drive onto the SATA hard drive that I am going to put into my new computer? Also, I would have to reformat it and install windows on it before moving anything on it, wouldn't I? Here's what I was going to do: Take current hdd out of my current computer. Plug in SATA drive, and format it and install windows on it. Next, I'll hook my IDE drive back in, making the SATA drive a slave and the IDE a master. Then, I whould be able to just drag and drop, wouldn't I? I've done it w/ 2 IDE drives, but not with 1 sata and 1 ide. Finally, I'm getting an MP3 player, but I am going to get it before I sell my computer and I want to put some songs on it as soon as possible. It is a Creative Zen Extra. If I use it in my current computer, and I sell my current computer, can I use it in my new computer too? I know that ipods have a seizure if you try to do that, but as long as I de-athorize my current computer before I sell it, it should be OK, right? Thank you!

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