Replacing IDE boot drive with SATA

[Antonin]

I have a 200 gig IDE drive that is the boot drive on my Win XP Pro system. It has always been NTFS and is C:.

I'd like to replace it with a 250 gig SATA2 drive, which is detected as drive one of my SATA drives. It is currently drive G:

Is it as simple as using partitionmagic to copy my old c: to the new drive, disconnect the old drive, change the bios to boot from the first SATA and also delete the G: from the disc management tool?

Thanks!

Ant.

 

[cdogg]

The manufacturer of the drive should include instructions and a free utility on their website.

PartitionMagic will work too, but don't forget to set the primary partition on the new drive "active". Also, don't worry about the drive letter. It is saved in Windows on the old drive. Once the new drive is on its own, it will default to C:

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[wolluf]

Just to add - you'll probably have to do a repair reinstall after the copy as its unlikely windows will boot from the SATA drive without the SATA drivers you need to supply on a floppy after pressing F6 at start of install process.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

(XP does support some mobo/SATA combinations natively, but most not).