Restore to a change of drive

[Hugh Janus]

Hi all,

I have a failing IDE drive that I want to replace with a brand new SATA
one. I want to maintain all of my Windows XP Pro installation and
files etc. Now, normally I would just ghost the old drive and restore
the image to the new one however, with the change of hard drive
technology, I am sure that on boot i'll just get a blue screen and it
will refuse to boot because it is looking for IDE but not finding it.ñ
So, I thought that I could take a full backup of the Windows partition
on the failing drive, install Windows onto the new drive and then do a
full restore including system state to recover everything. Does anyone
know if this will work and Windows will boot OK after the reboot after
the restore? I don't mind if it requires several reboots as it picks
up and installs the new hard drive but the thing I do not want to do is
reinstall from scratch and reconfigure everything.

One last thing, the hard drives are different sizes but the Windows XP
partitions will be of the same size.

TIA,
Hugh

 

[DL]

Clone the hd to the new using utility provided by hd manu, or available from
their web site, or using ghost etc.
You may have to run a repair install of win to install sata/raid drivers
from floppy via the F6 option.
If you then have unallocated space you would either have to use a third
party tool to expand partitions or Disk Management to create a new
partition.

Hi all,

I have a failing IDE drive that I want to replace with a brand new SATA
one. I want to maintain all of my Windows XP Pro installation and
files etc. Now, normally I would just ghost the old drive and restore
the image to the new one however, with the change of hard drive
technology, I am sure that on boot i'll just get a blue screen and it
will refuse to boot because it is looking for IDE but not finding it.ñ
So, I thought that I could take a full backup of the Windows partition
on the failing drive, install Windows onto the new drive and then do a
full restore including system state to recover everything. Does anyone
know if this will work and Windows will boot OK after the reboot after
the restore? I don't mind if it requires several reboots as it picks
up and installs the new hard drive but the thing I do not want to do is
reinstall from scratch and reconfigure everything.

One last thing, the hard drives are different sizes but the Windows XP
partitions will be of the same size.

TIA,
Hugh