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

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Quick! How do you do this?! IDE XP to SATA drive clone More
Published: 8 years, 10 month(s) ago by Noah Wolf | permalink
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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]

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Installing A Hard Drive - Step by Step - PCMech More
Published: 8 years, 10 month(s) ago by Ben Btg | permalink
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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]

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How to clone an ide drive to a sata drive on xp pro sp3 More
Published: 8 years, 10 month(s) ago by rectified | permalink
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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]

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How to clone IDE to a SATA for boot drive More
Published: 8 years, 10 month(s) ago by TXG Bninja | permalink
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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]

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Best of these 3 options to clone old IDE hard drive from LGA478 XP system while preserving OS More
Published: 8 years, 10 month(s) ago by Broslowski | permalink
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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]

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1. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/200078-quick-how-do-you-do-this-ide-xp-to-sata-drive-clone

2. http://www.pcmech.com/article/installing-a-hard-drive-step-by-step/

3. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1867054/clone-ide-drive-sata-drive-pro-sp3.html

4. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/245557-32-clone-sata-boot-drive

5. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2391055/options-clone-ide-hard-drive-lga478-system-preserving.html