Hi folks,

Thought I'd run this past some of the gurus here:

I recently bought a new 3.2 Ghz puter with an SATA drive. Is it possible to image the active partition on my old computer and restore it to the new SATA computer? Or will the difference in hardware configs make Windows unbootable?

BTW, this has a 128MB PCI Express x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeonâ„¢ X300 SE. Not the top of the line, but an upgrade from my old vidcard!

Mah

Good question Mah. I wish I had an answer for you. Right off, I'd say yes it is possible. Architecture is different but filing systems are filing systems. If you are running XP on that bad boy, there is some kind of file transfer settings transfer tool in there somewhere. If it were me, I'd back up the good porn and install a pure and fresh copy of XP on the new drive. Get it all up to date with the latest software you have and then pull all of the porn backover to the new one from the old one or a back-up.

I haven't seen you on MHM. I hope you are just practicing right now so we don't blow your doors off too bad and make you feel bad about all of the dough you spent on your new beast. Keep in mind that it is team based and we usually aren't able to damage each other in Monster Hunt.......just the monsters.

Back to topic, go to Symantic's web site and look up Ghost. Find the FAQ section for Norton's Ghost and I'm sure you will find the answer you are looking for there as far as imaging to a SATA drive. Good luck and please run 3dMark 2001 and tell us your results. Later!

I agree with Herm.
Also, CONGRATZ on the new computer :)

Thanks guys.

I backed up everything first, but I had no success. I imaged the regular IDE drive on my old computer and tried to restore it on the new SATA computer with a different hardware config. Apparently a lot of folks are having trouble with this. I was told to try FIXBOOT and FIXMBR, but this did not help. Computer will boot to the Windows screen and then immediately reboot.

I don't want to have to reinstall everything on the new puter. Any other ideas?

USing Acronis True Image.

try making two partitions on the sata drive. Ghost the image of you ide drive to the second partition on the sata drive. Then reboot with the ghost disk, and ghost the seconds sata partition onto the first. Then boot.

Not sure how the Acronis True Image works but should be about the same.

Mah:

There was an article in Maximum PC some months ago about imaging and using the various drive copy programs with SATA drives. Most of the current ones at that time didn't work properly. I think they said for some reason an older version of DriveCopy or Drive image worked but the current one didn't...

I've been wanting a new large SATA drive for my video machine but I'm holding off If I can't image or copy the old ATA drive to the SATA one.

Let us know how you make out.

Nexus Schwantz

Heya Schwantz

Yeah I saw that about Drive Image. That was when Ghost and True Image hadn't yet been updated to handle SATA.

All porn has been backed up and stored in a safe, dry place. Thanks for the reminder Herm! :lol:

Bigi, what's the purpose of restoring an image first to the second partition, and then to the first?

I just had a thought: Dell has this tiny FAT16 partition on the SATA -- I think it for diagnostic shit. I think they may also have an weird unformatted partition too. Could this be forking up the restore?

So far, I can't see anything but hassle with this SATA, but I guess part of it has to do with dell.

Mah

PS: That was fun on MH tonight. Still, we need redeemers on there ... :lol:

I had read about something of a HD controller issue, not being able to ghost from an ide to a sata drive....

That was how they got it to work. Put the backup image on the second partition, than remove the ide and and restore the image to primary sata partition....

:-)