Going from PATA hard drive to SATA hard drive

[Sureshot324]

I currently have a 120gb western digital PATA hard drive with my windows partition, win server 2k3 partion, and ubuntu linux partion, and a 60gb maxtor as a secondary data drive.

I just got a 300gb seagate SATA hd. I'm gonna use the seagate as my main drive now and use the western digital as a secondary data drive. I'll probably retire the maxtor.

My question is, can i just use norton ghost or partition magic to copy all my partitions from the WD PATA drive to the seagate SATA drive? If so, would it be possible to increase the size of those partitions while doing so? I really don't want to have to reinstall everything.

 

[ElFenix]

is it retail? if so just use the software that came with it.

if it isn't retail you can probably download seagate's copying software (seatools) off of their website

 

[fredhe12]

Use the DiscWizard tools off the Seagate website.

I went from a 80gb WD PATA drive with Win XP on it. I used the tools to copy everything to my new 250gb Seagate SATA drive. First use the tools to format and partition the new drive, then to copy. Piece of cake. I was done in about an hour!

 

[SuperFreaky]

use ghost 8.3, you can resize the partitions.
you may need to apply a .reg hack to support a different hd controller at boot. (you'll know if it bluescreen while windows loads) MS has KB article about this.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: fredhe12
Use the DiscWizard tools off the Seagate website.

I went from a 80gb WD PATA drive with Win XP on it. I used the tools to copy everything to my new 250gb Seagate SATA drive. First use the tools to format and partition the new drive, then to copy. Piece of cake. I was done in about an hour!

So I could create 3 partitions on the new drive, all larger than the old ones, format them, and copy over the data, and the OS's on all 3 would still work as before? Would this even work for linux partitions? What about my boot loader.

Also, can Norton Ghost do the same thing?

 

[Ctrackstar126]

Do you already own norton ghost. If not I would use acronis true image

 

[Zepper]

Install the SATA drivers for your controller into the existing windows BEFORE making the change.

.b.h.

 

[Steven the Leech]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Install the SATA drivers for your controller into the existing windows BEFORE making the change.

.b.h.