sysprep necessary?

just purchased TI 11. i have an ide hd in my computer. i have a new barracuda sata hd ready to install. my goal is to clone to the sata, make it the primary hd, and then use the ide hd as the backup. i have read about microsoft sysprep. is it necessary or desirable to use before i use TI 11 to clone to the new hd? also, after i do the cloning, can i make the new hd drive C, and change the drive designation of the old drive from C to something new?

 

You do not need Sysprep to put in a new SATA HD even if the old one was IDE.

After cloning immediately shutdown and disconnect the old IDE drive before the first boot. Since the new drive is an exact copy of the old one, the partition signatures and everything else is the same and it can confuse Windows on boot up. After the first succesful boot you can reconnect the old one if you wish.

 

thanks Seekforever. I suppose i should change the jumper on the ide hd to make it a slave? i will only want it to boot when i want to do an incremental or differential backup.

 

No, if it is the only drive on the IDE channel it should be master or Cable Select (CS). SATA drives have their own channel/connector and do not utilize master/slave configurations like IDE drives.

If I understand you correctly you want to make the old IDE the drive for storing backups. It doesn't have to be bootable for storing data files. If by bootable you meant you only want it to run when making backups you can set the power management to shut the disk off after various time has passed. It will then spin up when it is accessed.

 

Hello laflaone,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Please have a look at this article about transferring your operating system from IDE to SATA hard drives.

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Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov

 

When you swap the drives for the first boot after the cloning, you might need to go into the BIOS and rearrange the Boot Up order or which drives are checked for an OS. If you get an "NTLDR not found" message after swapping clones (especial IDE and SATA), that is often the fix that is needed.

 

Very true, thanks for pointing it out.

 

Seekforever, Marat Setdikov, and Shieber: Thanks for your responses. They were all helpful. Before long I will get up the courage to take the leap.