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How can I fully copy (clone) an old PATA disc to a partition of a new SATA disc?

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I have an old PATA disc (Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD1600BEVE), formatted in FAT32 and coming from an old laptop and I want to clone it (transfer it entirely with its OS, all its programs, files, etc.) on another disc. This destination disc has two partitions, one formatted in NTFS with several files of mine and another empty one, formatted in exFAT.

I am using Acronis True Image 2016 edition, purchased directly from Acronis via Cleverbridge on 2010-04-10

How can I clone (fully copy) the disc into the second partition?

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Panagiotis, thank you for opening this new topic as requested.

As I said in the other topic, you cannot use cloning to transfer your old PATA drive to a separate partition of another drive - cloning will wipe out the target drive if you attempt this and create a duplicate of the PATA drive on that second drive.

If you are intending to boot from the OS on the old PATA drive, then you will need a second PATA drive if this is to be installed in the same old laptop.

If you are looking to migrate the OS on the old PATA drive to a different laptop or other computer system, then there are other challenges that you will need to overcome to do this, but again I would not recommend using cloning to try to do this. 

Please tell us more about what you are wanting to do here in relation to the PATA drive?