Image SCSI to IDE hard-drive?

[Guest]

Been running XP pro on an old 18gig scsi HD, I want to image (i have drive
image 7) or xcopy the OS with everything over to a new 120 IDE hd.

I've done (with success) image lot's of times but has alwas been from and to
the same scsi HD (.v2i file).

Has anyone imaged from a scsi to an IDE succesfully??

 

[Kerry Brown]

Install the IDE hard drive and boot into Windows from the SCSI drive so the
correct drivers for the IDE drive are installed. If the disk is recognised
in the disk management console (diskmgmt.msc) you're good to continue. Don't
worry about partitioning it here. Make sure you have a bootable Windows CD
of the same version and service pack level as the installed Windows. Shut
down the computer. Boot from the imaging software boot media and clone the
SCSI drive to the IDE drive then shutdown, don't reboot. During the cloning
process you should be able to specify the size of the partition you want to
clone to. Remove the SCSI drive, setup the IDE drive to it's desired setup
i.e. master/slave/whatever. Set the BIOS to boot from the CD drive and boot
from the Windows CD to the recovery console. Fix the boot.ini file manually
(it will be pointing to the SCSI drive) or run the "bootcfg /rebuild"
command. Set the BIOS to boot from the IDE drive and hopefully you are good
to go. A lot depends on the imaging program you use. You may need to use an
intermediate step i.e image to an external drive then restore the image to
the IDE drive. You may also need the fixboot and fixmbr commands from the
recovery console.

 

[Guest]

Thx Kerry:
I've used all of the commands mentioned at one time or the other and have no
problem with them.
You gave me the extra assurance needed about scsi to ide.....Thanks again.

-Zig