OT cloning WD80SE to sata 160maxtor

[OverKlocker]

i just got my 160gig maxtor sata drive in. i would like to clone it to
the new 160 (was planning on giving my 80 to my mom). i have ghost2k3,
XP home w/ sp1, and access to pretty much anything else i might need.
i would rather not format and do a clean install. i have cloned the
drive, i can boot to the 160 (shows up as f, can't change it when it
is the boot drive), but it will only boot up with the 80 plugged in. i
even moved the pagefile to f, using system properties/advanced/etc. am
i having a brain fart, am i missing something, or am i just frellin
hosed here? should i try ghose 2k3 thru a bootdisk (i fugure it
wouldn't work due to the sata setup)? or ghost, shutdown and swap with
just the one drive so it can't link to the 80? thanx in advance

 

[Rob]

Should work without doing format and clean/repair install if it's still
on the same system. I used ghost from a boot disk last week to to move
from a 120GB PATA with WinXP Home, to a new Seagate 120GB SATA. It'll
see the SATA drive just fine. I chose the disk to disk transfer, then
removed the old drive and the SATA booted the same as the old drive did,
only faster. Hardest part of the process was finding out where I had
stored my old floppy drive!!

Rob

 

[OverKlocker]

Should work without doing format and clean/repair install if it's still
on the same system. I used ghost from a boot disk last week to to move
from a 120GB PATA with WinXP Home, to a new Seagate 120GB SATA. It'll
see the SATA drive just fine. I chose the disk to disk transfer, then
removed the old drive and the SATA booted the same as the old drive did,
only faster. Hardest part of the process was finding out where I had
stored my old floppy drive!!

so you did it through a bootable floppy with the ghost.exe file on it?

 

[Rob]

Yes. Had XP make me a boot disk and placed the ghost file on it.