HDD Upgrade

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:57 am

OS: Win 2k Pro

Source Drive: 30 GB IDE

Target Drive: 120 GB SATA

Now how do i go about upgrading this w/o needing to reinstall everything from scratch.

I know step 1 is install drivers for the SATA adapter.

But beyond that is what i want to do possible?

kb0nly · Post by **kb0nly** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:37 am

You can do this a couple ways, but the easiest is to just go over to the Maxtor.com website and download their free Maxblast 4 software. Boot into windows with both drives connected and make sure windows sees the new drive. Then i like to boot off the Maxblast CD and use it to copy the partition and expand it to the size of the new drive. Just follow the instructions step by step and it will lead you through it.

Once its done shutdown and make sure the old drive is removed or go into the bios and set the SATA ahead of the IDE in the boot priority. That is if your Bios has this option. If not just unplug the IDE drive for now and make sure you can boot off the SATA. If you want to use the old IDE as a secondary drive you can reconnect it later as a slave.

thebigphish · Post by **thebigphish** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:08 pm

Norton Ghost.

Install Ghost.
Tell it to clone partitions.
(Watch it clone partitions)
Reboot.
Make computer use SATA for boot drive
Use old IDE as aux storage.

there you go.