How to Clone IDE Hard Drive to New SATA Drive With XP

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Tip 1 - Quick! How do you do this?! IDE XP to SATA drive clone

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Noah Wolf | permalink

I have an old system here I wanted to upgrade the guts on. So I download xxclone and copied the C: to a SATA drive that was plugged in... | 14 replies | Windows

For further reading: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/200078-quick-how-do-you-do-this-ide-xp-to-sata-drive-clone ^[1]

Tip 2 - Installing A Hard Drive - Step by Step - PCMech

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ben Btg | permalink

A step-by-step guide on installing a new hard drive.

For further reading: http://www.pcmech.com/article/installing-a-hard-drive-step-by-step/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to clone an ide drive to a sata drive on xp pro sp3

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by rectified | permalink

I need to clone an IDE drive to a SATA drive on xp pro sp3. All older threads are at least 4 years old....this must have gotten easier. Old drive is a Western Digital IDE120 gb and new drive is a 2T

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1867054/clone-ide-drive-sata-drive-pro-sp3.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to clone IDE to a SATA for boot drive

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by TXG Bninja | permalink

I have a 250Gb Samsung IDE HDD and want to clone it to a SATA II HDD. I want to remove the IDE HDD and use the SATA HDD as my main drive. Is this possible? If so, what software do I need to do this?

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/245557-32-clone-sata-boot-drive ^[4]

Tip 5 - Best of these 3 options to clone old IDE hard drive from LGA478 XP system while preserving OS

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Broslowski | permalink

Background: This is a circa 11 year old prebuilt Windows XP computer that's down in the garage. (Frys model FM7640, LGA478.) I mainly keep it because it has copies of about 30-40 games from the late 8

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2391055/options-clone-ide-hard-drive-lga478-system-preserving.html ^[5]