PATA ->SATA Ghost

[uberlad]

I'm getting a new SATA drive some time this week, and obviously want to move my windows install to it because it's new, and has an 8mb cache etc etc.

Except I have a terrible feeling that if I just ghost my PATA drive over onto the SATA and then mess about with partition magic as I have done in the past I will be left with a bunch of data on a SATA drive that is utterly unbootable.

Am I going to need a clean install so that Windows has the drivers for the SATA installed at a suitable level for booting?

If so then I spose I'll just have to create a slipstreamed windows disc with the SATA drivers on it (The floppy drive it dead, long live pretty much any other media format).

Uberlad

[LvR]

If your current OS installation is working well for you with all motherboard device drivers loaded, go get CasperXP - have yet to find any disk it could not clone from and to any interface you care to mention - and it all happens while Windows is running.

[The PIT]

If your sata driver is already installed you shouldn't have a problem. I didn't.

[uberlad]

Yep, that pretty much ticks all the boxes on fantastically useful software.

I'll use that then. Eeeexcellent.

Thanks LvR

Uberlad