Restore to a Different Hard drive

Hi,
I have a created a backup image and verified it. NOw if I want to restore to a different Hard drive (which happens to be SATA and my original was IDE) will that work? Meaning I still would like to have my IDE in the system but essentially make my larger capacity faster SATA as the my primary boot drive? Will I get windows errors? I will erase the IDE drive after restore so that there are no two bootable HDD in system.

Any suggestions? Basically, my goal is to move my IDE main drive to a larger capacity SATA and still have the old IDE as a storage drive.

 

Unfortunately I have not got a SATA disk so I cannot give you a definitive answer.

The way I see it, the quickest way to find out is to restore the image, disconnect the original disk, and then boot with the SATA disk. You have nothing to lose as the original still has all the information.

If your image is stored on DVD, you might find that you expereince a problem when you boot with the SATA, and the problem is due to the way the image was stored on the DVD and has nothing to do with the SATA disk.

When you do restore the image, please give us feedback re your success or failure.

 

yes! once you have created the clone restart and enter the bios and set the new drive to boot from and set boot from other device to NO, once in windows and all is ok you need to delete the old partition and reformat to avoid conflicts.

 

Sorry - I'm confused here. I am about to replace an old IDE drive with a new SATA drive. I thought to do this it was necessary to use Acronis Universal Restore ? . The help files say "Choose this option when restoring a system disk (partition) to a computer with other processor, motherboard or HDD controller than in the imaged system".

 

Hi, Long View

No need for the use of Universal Restore.

I above reads to mean if someone is restoring to differrent System.


Take Care,
TheQuest

 

Thanks - the bit that concerned me was "or HDD controller than in the imaged system" I thought that changing from IDE to SATA might be a problem.
I'm picking up a SATA card in the morning and will give it a go.

 

See this link:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=816823&postcount=6
In particular, carefully read the section on IDE to SATA in the link:
this article

 

Thanks. That article is very helpful. I am going out of town so won't get a chance to try it. But when I do, I will let you guys know if that worked.