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upgrade xp to vista and new sata drive

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bucfanmike

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Ok heres the deal, i have a 180 gig ide and and a 80 gig ide. the main drive (180) is partitioned into 4 drives. on the c part of that is where xp is and i have only about 5 gigs left (it was a 30 gig part..). so i want to put in the new sata drive and still keep the 4 partitions but i want the c one larger. do i put in the new drive 1st, partition it and then move everything from old drive to the new one then finally upgrade to vista, or upgrade to vista 1st then install the new drive and move everything?

thanks if you can offer advice
 
You seem to have left out some key details, but I think you want to move all your stuff onto a new (presumably much bigger) SATA drive?

If you want to move the installation you'll need to use something like Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost to backup the C partition and reconstruct it on the new drive. Acronis, at least, can also expand a partition while you do this, or you could use a tool like PartitionMagic to increase the size.

With the other partitions you can either image them or just create new partitions on the SATA drive and copy things over.

What I would recommend is:

Copy the C partition to the new drive with Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage.
Boot up on the SATA drive. Upgrade to Vista. You might want to disconnect the old drives so you can't accidentally format them by mistake or something.
If all goes well with the upgrade, create new partitions on the SATA drive and copy over whatever data you want on it. If you have problems with the upgrade your old install is still intact.

If you don't care about having to reinstall your programs you can also just do a fresh install of Vista on the SATA drive. But obviously you'll need to reinstall anything that is currently on your system.
 
thanks, and yes u understand my ramblings as to what i was trying to accomplish. i like your suggestion, if something screws up in the vista install i will still have my old drive to fall back on with your plan.
 
matthias, thanks.. so far so good on the drive.. acronis worked prefectly, then switched my bios over to boot from sata. all worked flawlessly. spent hours so far trying to get vista to install. damn nero burning rom. finally went in and manually removed all references to it in the registry. off to work now but vista install should be done tomorrow
 
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