Needs to upgrade SATAI to SATAII

[Guest]

Hello,
I am running vista ultimate 64bits on a SATAI 80 Gb HD. I would like to
upgrade it to a SATAII 500Gb HD by cloning. I have also a IDE 160Gb HD that I
use for archiving data. I never done this before and I would like to have
suggestions on the best way to do:

Is this would be ok (from what I gathered from this forum):

1 - disconnect a data IDE HD
2 - connect the new SATAII HD
3 - start OS
4 - Clone SATA1 HD to the new SATAII HD using acronis TrueImage 10
5 - shut down - remove old SATAI HD - replace with new SATAII HD
6 - start OS: should boot ok ?
7 - reconnect the IDE data HD

Now I would like to use the old SATAI HD as a second data HD = if I
reconnect it I will have 2 OS on 2 HD - would it be a problem ?

Thanks for the advices,

Bertrand

 

[John Barnes]

Now I would like to use the old SATAI HD as a second data HD = if I
reconnect it I will have 2 OS on 2 HD - would it be a problem ?

If possible your best bet with the old SATAI would be to plug it in with the
machine running ie hotswap. This will avoid drive letter enumeration
problems. There will be no problem with 2 os, but you should make sure that
the SATAII remains the first drive in boot priority. I assume you will be
reformatting the partition on the old drive after you are booted into your
new copy anyway.