Moving Vista

I have Vista Ultimate SP1 installed on a 160GB IDE hard drive. A while
back, I purchased a 750GB SATA hard drive and began storing my photographs,
music and projects on it.

Lately, my IDE drive has been acting weird. My PC will reboot and be unable
to find the IDE drive. After shutting down and waiting, then going into the
BIOS to let it rediscover the IDE, it will usually sucessfully reboot. I am
getting very wary of this old drive.

Is there a way of moving my Vista installation onto the SATA drive?

Any help will be appreciated.

TIA,
Eric G. Mitchell

Acronis True Image will do it, just image the drive to a different sized
partition, have you already done research on having a SATA drive as your boot
drive?
some Pc's require the bios settings to be altered to allow the sata to be
the boot device.

"" wrote:

> I have Vista Ultimate SP1 installed on a 160GB IDE hard drive. A while
> back, I purchased a 750GB SATA hard drive and began storing my photographs,
> music and projects on it.
>
> Lately, my IDE drive has been acting weird. My PC will reboot and be unable
> to find the IDE drive. After shutting down and waiting, then going into the
> BIOS to let it rediscover the IDE, it will usually sucessfully reboot. I am
> getting very wary of this old drive.
>
> Is there a way of moving my Vista installation onto the SATA drive?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Eric G. Mitchell
>

Thanx for the quick reply! I'll try Acronis.

Eric

On Aug 14, 9:07*pm, egm81...@SPAMgmail.com wrote:
> Thanx for the quick reply! *I'll try Acronis.
>
> Eric

There is just one problem: it's not as simple as "sgopus" stated it.

If you use ATI to make an image, that image is a compressed copy of
the original drive and isn't bootable. Also, I don't think that ATI
can use an image of a drive then restore it to a single partition on a
drive with more than one partition. I don't think the end result will
be bootable. You should check on that to be sure.

Acronis can CLONE (make an exact, bootable copy) of the failing drive
to the SATA drive, but not to a partition on that drive. It will
require using the entire drive, so everything you have stored on that
drive will be wiped.

After cloning, you will have to shut your system down, disconnect the
original drive, go to the BIOS and set the SATA drive to be first in
the boot order, and then boot to it so get things setup. Once you
have succeeded doing all of that, you can reconnect the failing drive
as long as you don't set it to be first in the boot order. Given that
you think it's failing, that probably wouldn't be smart to do, because
you wouldn't want to save anything on it anyway.

If you still want to buy ATI (and you should) get it from newegg.com.
You will save $20 over the Acronis download price, will get the boxed
version and 3-day shipping will be free. If you're in a rush, buy it
from Acronis and download it.

"Paul Montgomery" <> wrote in message
news:5c322ff9-157d-487f-a380-...
On Aug 14, 9:07 pm, egm81...@SPAMgmail.com wrote:
> Thanx for the quick reply! I'll try Acronis.
>
> Eric

There is just one problem: it's not as simple as "sgopus" stated it.

If you use ATI to make an image, that image is a compressed copy of
the original drive and isn't bootable.

>>>>No, but the restore discs are what you boot from.


Also, I don't think that ATI
can use an image of a drive then restore it to a single partition on a
drive with more than one partition. I don't think the end result will
be bootable. You should check on that to be sure.

>>>>Untrue if I understand you. You can do that. Just make sure that you
>>>>have complete drive letter integrity with the original partition. In
>>>>fact, if you do have more than one partition and just backup the boot
>>>>parittion (C, everything must be kept exactly as is on the new drive
>>>>re partitions and drive letters. It is best to image the entire
>>>>structure of one drive and restore to the same structure on the new
>>>>drive (that is why they sell Drive Manager as well.)

Acronis can CLONE (make an exact, bootable copy) of the failing drive
to the SATA drive, but not to a partition on that drive. It will
require using the entire drive, so everything you have stored on that
drive will be wiped.

After cloning, you will have to shut your system down, disconnect the
original drive, go to the BIOS and set the SATA drive to be first in
the boot order, and then boot to it so get things setup. Once you
have succeeded doing all of that, you can reconnect the failing drive
as long as you don't set it to be first in the boot order. Given that
you think it's failing, that probably wouldn't be smart to do, because
you wouldn't want to save anything on it anyway.

If you still want to buy ATI (and you should) get it from newegg.com.
You will save $20 over the Acronis download price, will get the boxed
version and 3-day shipping will be free. If you're in a rush, buy it
from Acronis and download it.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:48:06 -0700, "Telstar" <none@none> wrote:

>
>"Paul Montgomery" <> wrote in message
>news:5c322ff9-157d-487f-a380-...
>On Aug 14, 9:07 pm, egm81...@SPAMgmail.com wrote:
>> Thanx for the quick reply! I'll try Acronis.
>>
>> Eric
>
>There is just one problem: it's not as simple as "sgopus" stated it.
>
>If you use ATI to make an image, that image is a compressed copy of
>the original drive and isn't bootable.
>
>>>>>No, but the restore discs are what you boot from.

You sure have your quoting all f***ed up! Are you manually putting
the arrows in front of your words because you don't know HOW to
properly quote?

> Also, I don't think that ATI
>can use an image of a drive then restore it to a single partition on a
>drive with more than one partition. I don't think the end result will
>be bootable. You should check on that to be sure.
>
>>>>>Untrue if I understand you. You can do that. Just make sure that you
>>>>>have complete drive letter integrity with the original partition. In
>>>>>fact, if you do have more than one partition and just backup the boot
>>>>>parittion (C, everything must be kept exactly as is on the new drive
>>>>>re partitions and drive letters. It is best to image the entire
>>>>>structure of one drive and restore to the same structure on the new
>>>>>drive (that is why they sell Drive Manager as well.)
>
>Acronis can CLONE (make an exact, bootable copy) of the failing drive
>to the SATA drive, but not to a partition on that drive. It will
>require using the entire drive, so everything you have stored on that
>drive will be wiped.
>
>After cloning, you will have to shut your system down, disconnect the
>original drive, go to the BIOS and set the SATA drive to be first in
>the boot order, and then boot to it so get things setup. Once you
>have succeeded doing all of that, you can reconnect the failing drive
>as long as you don't set it to be first in the boot order. Given that
>you think it's failing, that probably wouldn't be smart to do, because
>you wouldn't want to save anything on it anyway.
>
>If you still want to buy ATI (and you should) get it from newegg.com.
>You will save $20 over the Acronis download price, will get the boxed
>version and 3-day shipping will be free. If you're in a rush, buy it
>from Acronis and download it.
>