Transfering Data to a New Hard Drive
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Transfering Data to a New Hard Drive
I recently upgraded to a 250 GB S-ATA Hard Drive, I've installed it and all works fine, but what I want to do now it so take everything off my old P-ATA (40 GB) and put it on the S-ATA one, I was just wondering whats the way to do this so that the computer will boot the OS off the S-ATA HD instead of the P-ATA one. Thanks.
Dan
P.S I'm not sure if you need this or not but I'm using WinXP Pro SP2.
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You will find many cloning ideas and approaches here:
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...one+hard+drive
As to which drive boots: this is determined by your BIOS boot menu.
Make sure that the SATA is in slot 0 or 1 and not in SATA/RAID 3 or 4.
Also if there are any booting problems it often helps to remove the ATA drive from the boot menu altogether.