Ghost IDE to SATA image Help needed

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Hi!

I am sure I'm not the first to ask for help with this problem.

I have an old IDE/ATA hard drive and I am running out of space. My computer
is new with a DUO processor and 2 gig of High performance RAM and the old
hard drive is the slowest componunt on the computer so I'm upgrading to a WD
RAPTOR with 16mb of Cache and 10,000 RPM.

I have an INTEL D945GNT Mother board with a built in SATA controller. I
want to get the image of my current hard drive over to the new hard drive
and take advantage of the new disk space.

My main problem is HOW do I get the SATA drivers onto the new disk image so
the computer will boot to the SATA Drive after load the image?

I have never used Ghost or imaging software before so I don't know how to do
this.

I think I want to install BOTH Drives in the computer at first so I can copy
all my data to the new drive. OR should I use CD's or DVD's to copy my data
with Ghost and Ghost it back to the new drive?

I was also thinking that I could install the Intel Mother board SATA drivers
on the old IDE drive BEFORE I ghost it and perhaps it will show up when I
boot the new SATA drive...

AM I CLOSE?

Help.. How do I do this?

BB
 
With one SATA drive,the SATA controller or RAID controller if youre board has
that doesnt use intels SATA/RAID drivers,it uses windows drivers,to see the
specs,go
to:http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010695.htm
Also,SATA & IDE disk imaging doesnt usually work well together,otherwise you
could simply use xps own XCOPY,a 3rd party utility might
work.Otherwise,simply
run the file transfer wizard from the xp cd,set as old pc,select data to
save,save
in new folder,once thru move to cd..Install a clean copy of xp,run the FTW
with
all youre data,then simply install xp updates...
 
I've not used Ghost but use Acronis True Image, thats never given me any
problems
Remember to disconnect the old drive *before* you reboot after the clone
operation
Its allways wise to have backed up data before you begin any such operation.
Though you should have data backed up anyway
 
No, as the last time I went from pata to sata I wanted to build a clean
array
If it goes wrong, you still have an intact origonal drive however.
 
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