Originally Posted by
Howard
Guys,
My Media PC has an 80gb IDE drive at present, and have bought a 250GB SATA drive.
Will I have any problems using any programs like "xxclone" (windows-based) or HDclone (boots off a CD) to just clone the contents of the 80GB drive to the newer, bigger SATA drive, then boot as normal?
I don't want to reinstall the OS or copy across the drive's (nearly full) contents elsewhere, so this is the only easy option... But it's do-able with differing size drives, and IDE to SATA, right?
Cheers