Help w/ moving hard drive, and with mp3 player

penguinrusty

penguinrusty

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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!
 
well, the way i would do this is set your IDE as the master. connect your SATA drive also. you can format the sata while booting off your IDE. then just drag and drop, however if you put your SATA into a new computer you may have some issues because windows is set up for the hard ware on your old computer. prolly nothing big. ive never tried just copy and pasting windows on a new HDD, however i have taken a HDD out of one computer and put it in another and windows ran fine for me.. but it might mess up if the computer's architecture is very different. but i would say copy all your files and install windows on your SATA drive while booted from the IDE (instead of copy pasting windows). :) good luck
 
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