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Hello all,
I have a friend who has an older Dell desktop with a 160GB IDE hard drive and XP installed on it. He just bought a SATA RAID controller for the PCIe slot and has a 2TB WD Green on it now.
Can we get a faster WD Black, or similar, HDD to image the OS onto so that we don't have to redo all the setting and configurations in his OS?
I thought there would be several factors affecting this, correct me if any of this is wrong:
1. I need an exact imaging software to make an exact copy of the OS drive so the computer won't see that it's changed except for size.
2. The new HDD would have to be external while imaging the old OS drive so the computer wouldn't give it a drive designation (D:/) and making the computer not be able to boot from it and stay the same.
3. Biggest problem foreseen:
The old OS HDD is IDE and tethered to the CD/DVD. The new OS drive (WD Black) is SATA and would have to go through the SATA RAID controller. Will this be a problem when telling BIOS to boot from the SATA controller for OS instead of the IDE HDD?
Any help would be great.
Thanks
I have a friend who has an older Dell desktop with a 160GB IDE hard drive and XP installed on it. He just bought a SATA RAID controller for the PCIe slot and has a 2TB WD Green on it now.
Can we get a faster WD Black, or similar, HDD to image the OS onto so that we don't have to redo all the setting and configurations in his OS?
I thought there would be several factors affecting this, correct me if any of this is wrong:
1. I need an exact imaging software to make an exact copy of the OS drive so the computer won't see that it's changed except for size.
2. The new HDD would have to be external while imaging the old OS drive so the computer wouldn't give it a drive designation (D:/) and making the computer not be able to boot from it and stay the same.
3. Biggest problem foreseen:
The old OS HDD is IDE and tethered to the CD/DVD. The new OS drive (WD Black) is SATA and would have to go through the SATA RAID controller. Will this be a problem when telling BIOS to boot from the SATA controller for OS instead of the IDE HDD?
Any help would be great.
Thanks