How to move image onto new HDD?

[Rule G]

Thanks to GroverH, I have successfully (I think) made an image of my hard drive. I now need help with the next step and the TI help files are overwhelming.

And there is a peculiar twist that you might not expect...

Here goes,
I have the image on an external USB drive. It's drive letter is (Y).
I am replacing an IDE disk (C) with a SATA disk. The SATA disk has a SATA to IDE converter so that my IDE cable can plug into the SATA drive. The problem is that the machine will not boot with the IDE and the SATA drive.

Can I remove the IDE drive, boot from the USB drive (with the SATA drive installed) and restore the image to the SATA drive?

Thank you
Danny

[GroverH]

-{ Quote: "The problem is that the machine will not boot with the IDE and the SATA drive." }- Can you clarify a little more? Are you saying you have removed the old drive and with the new SATA attached, it will not boot into the BIOS? (The SATA has no operating system at this point.)

or, are you saying the old C is attached and the new SATA is attached as SLAVE?
or old C attached as Slave on middle connector and SATA attached to end connector .(Sata drives has no slave relationship)

Have you moved C drive where it connects to the motherboard or cable? . Was there a BIOS change made?

Help us to understand the physical layout of the drives a wee bit more.
Are there any instructions which relate to where this drive is to be connected on the ribbon cable?
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edited:
Is the image and link below similar to the type connector being used?
If yes, I assume old C drive still attached and attached to end connector of ribbon cable.
If yes, then I assume you have to jumper your attachment as a Slave and attach your SATA on the middle ribbon connector.
If yes to the above, did you make a change in the BIOS so that it is looking for the new Primary Slave?

If no to the above, how do they differ? At this point, my understanding is that your system is not bootable with the SATA drive attached???
http://www.cooldrives.com/native-sata-to-ide-adapter-with-jmicron-chip.html




ps: hopefully, you say my last posting in
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=168939

[Darkoz]

-{ Quote: "Thanks to GroverH, I have successfully (I think) made an image of my hard drive. I now need help with the next step and the TI help files are overwhelming.

And there is a peculiar twist that you might not expect...

Here goes,
I have the image on an external USB drive. It's drive letter is (Y).
I am replacing an IDE disk (C) with a SATA disk. The SATA disk has a SATA to IDE converter so that my IDE cable can plug into the SATA drive. The problem is that the machine will not boot with the IDE and the SATA drive.

Can I remove the IDE drive, boot from the USB drive (with the SATA drive installed) and restore the image to the SATA drive?

Thank you
Danny" }-

Firstly, if you are adding a new hard drive to replace your existing OS drive then you should clone your entire existing drive onto the new drive rather than putting an image onto the new drive.
Imaging is more suited as a backup procedure, while cloning is better suited for transferring/copying the entire contents of an existing drive directly onto a new replacement drive.

I'm using the latest Acronis build here.......

- Shutdown your PC and install the new drive (still leave the existing OS drive installed) then disconnect the USB drive (you're not going to need the image you created)
- Restart, then enter the motherboard BIOS by pressing the Del key during startup and make sure in the motherboard BIOS that it's set to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
- Then place the Acronis True Image Rescue Disk into your Cd drive, save changes and restart, your PC should then boot from the Acronis CD.
- Once the Acronis Rescue Disk loads, click on Manage Hard Disks
- Then click on Clone Disk, this will make an exact copy of the contents of your existing OS drive onto the new replacement drive.
- To proceed, just follow the instructions, to be on the safe side DO NOT choose to delete the contents of the existing drive.
- When Acronis has finished cloning your existing drive it will automatically shut down your PC.
- Once the PC has shut down, it's important to disconnect your existing drive then re-connect the new drive in it's place, so when you re-start only the new drive is installed.
- Now re-start your PC, enter the motherboard BIOS again and make sure that it's set to boot from the new drive., eject the Acronis Rescue disk, save changes and re-start.
- Your PC will now boot up from the newly installed drive with the operating system and all your existing data in tact.