Changing Bootable Hard Drive

[RPT]

I just purchased a new SATA Hard Drive which is much faster than the IDE Disks I have now. I will be using Norton Ghost to move my Operating System and Program Files to the new drive (thanks to the folks on this forum who helped me figure that out). I assume I will have to change to bootable drive in the BIOS, but are there any physical connections I'll have to change inside my PC?
Thanks!!

 

[ckfordy]

I just purchased a new SATA Hard Drive which is much faster than the IDE Disks I have now. I will be using Norton Ghost to move my Operating System and Program Files to the new drive (thanks to the folks on this forum who helped me figure that out). I assume I will have to change to bootable drive in the BIOS, but are there any physical connections I'll have to change inside my PC?
Thanks!!

no i dont think that there is anything else that you would have to change.

 

[crossface]

Careful you will end up with a drive letters reversed. If you want your boot drive to be c: . Clone your existing drive to the new Sata, if you boot with pata and sata connected you end up with Sata has drive f: . If you have two optical drives. Their is no way to change the drive letter without a windows re-install.

 

[meanman]

if you are going to be gaiming why not keep your windows on your ide and use the sata to install your games on