new hard drives

[gweng]

I just installed a new sata drive into my computer today and i was wondering if its at all possible to just transfer the data from my ide drive onto my sata drive to make it my primary disk, since i dont have the install cds for an operating system.

 

[reddevil6]

do u mean copy the oprating systum as well cos if so it will not work

 

[dznutz]

you can use acronis to make an image.
then set primary device as the sata
then use the acronis boot cd, then the image created dvds

 

[meanman]

yeh norton ghost will maka a full image of the ide drive including the os then you can load the image onto the new hdd.

 

[Cromewell]

There are open source tools as well if you don't want to buy ghost: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/

 

[Calibretto]

MaxBlast is free and works great for what you need .

 

[gweng]

okay i just downloaded clonezilla. my only question now is, since i partitioned my old ide hard drive, when i copy my c drive, the d drive information wont go with it right? and then afterwards, can i make an image of my d drive and mount it on my sata drive (i realize that may make some programs not work, but i just want to get everything on one disk...i can reinstall most programs)