Q: So from what I hear, I have a very difficult task.
I have a hard disk that is not me. It is an old IDE drive with Windows Vista installed. I want all data and operating system to move to a new disc, which was given to me. The new drive is a SATA disk.
Ok the hurdles I have . # 1 I hear it is difficult to find software that Vista image. # 2 I hear its hard to ghost from IDE to SATA.
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to go about this and what software I need? I want everything exactly as it is, but with the new hard drive instead of the old. I was told by two people whom I will have to start and just to install Vista on the SATA disk, but I really do not want to do: (I thought I had that last month, when I had to format to recover from a virus. Everything is finally back to the way I like it. I would hate to start over: (
PS, Windows Vista Business Edition. It is a legitimate copy as legit work has a corporate license and asked us to installed on our home PCs to test our work before we upgraded laptops. also activated.
Best Answer: you want to look for the "system image" option.
this will copy EVERYTHING and pack it into a single file.
you will need either an external hard drive or a second hard drive installed and plugged in with the system image file on it.
after that you can use your recovery disk that came with your Norton Ghost package, skip through the jargon and find the "restore system from image" option.
after that, it will ask you to find the system image you want to install on the new hard drive.
open up the file location and select the system image, then go watch some TV, go shopping, or just something to pass the time (this takes some time, depending on how many files you have)
Re:oh well. thanks for the help but while trying to copy data with that ghost program the drive failed and now windows will not even boot if that drive is attached. i am just starting from scratch -sigh-
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thanks but that link brings me to an empty page
edit/ ok i tried again and it worked. i am gonna try that acronis software since they have a free trial.. wish me luck
Acronis works.
But, you cannot run the free trial version from CD.
I have tried it from Windows. I had Vista on a partition and XP on another. I installed Acronis on the XP partition and ran it and imaged the Vista partition.
Re:thanks but that link brings me to an empty page
edit/ ok i tried again and it worked. i am gonna try that acronis software since they have a free trial.. wish me luck
Re:I do not have an answer for you.
But, this thread may be relevant.
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Re:and ok figure i will post what i tried in case anyone else has this issue and searches….
so i booted with just the sata drive and sure enough, it shows as C: now. so what i did was i took an external usb enclosure, put in the ide drive, plugged it in and booted. yay the sata drive is still showing as C: and the external is now E: with my backup data
it reads from the E: drive, i go through the prompts, and bam, same error message… vista + sata = DOOM! i am about to hook up an ide drive and take off the sata drive to see if it will even work that way. if so then vista is just screwed up and i will have to find another way to ghost this drive :'(
/edit/ ok i said screw sata… i hooked up an ide drive… tried to do the recover… same freakin error. cmon someone has got to know how to do this
Re:actually the drive is showing up fine on the vista screen. when i go to load drivers it shows the sata drive clear as day. i can even browse on it and create folders. but when i go to restore the data it says i do not have a big enough hard drive for the data
i do not get it. it is driving me crazy >_<
exact message
Error Details: There are too few disks on this computer or one or more of the disks is too small. Add or change disks so they match the disks in the backup, and try the restore again. (0×80042401)
it never gives me the option to select the drive i want to restore to. i think it is trying to restore on top of itself. it shows the ide drive as C: and the sata drive as d:
is there any way i can make the sata drive c:??? the ide drive is setup as a primary slave and the sata drive is plugged into the first sata connector. the built in drivers on the motherboard says i can press tab to configure the sata raid but when i go in there it does not let me modify any options (probably because i only have 1 drive so cannot raid it) i would setup a 2nd drive but my power supply only has 1 sata power cable
Re:ok i got ahold of a 40 gig ide drive, backed up data to it, so now i have the sata drive and this backup drive hooked up. i tried restoring but vista is not seeing the sata drive
so i am trying to find vista drivers for my ecs kt600a and am having no luck this sucks…Re:well i have 30 gigs of data to backup if i do it that way. the sata drive is 40 gigs so i am not sure where to save the 30 gigs to if i have to restore it back to the sata drive :-\
i was hoping for a way to just copy one drive to the other. perhaps i can get my hands on another drive to store the backed up data onto but how would i go about moving the data from that drive to the sata drive?
Re:Use Complete PC Backup, built into the OS. It's brain dead easy to use.
I'm not sure how it will work with the change from IDE to SATA. That is normally not an issue at all for Vista, but I'm not sure if a Complete PC Backup will do a hardware detection when you restore it.
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