IDE drive on old machine to a SATA drive on a new machine
I have an IDE hard drive that contains a Windows XP Pro install that I would like to bring over to a new computer that has a SATA drive.
Using a third computer, can I connect my old IDE hard drive via a USB enclosure (the enclosure handles both IDE and SATA drives), create a full disk image, and then connect the new SATA drive to this enclosure and restore the image to it?
Feel free to suggest alternate methods as well.
tuttle,
Thank you for the quick response.
ATI 2014. When you refer to the ATI bootable Rescue Media, are you referring to ATI on a bootable CD? If so, I do have this.
I want the old XP Pro install to work on the new machine.
The IDE drive is connected to a USB enclosure right now. The old PC is effectively dead.
Has the IDE drive ever been connected to a Windows PC, such as via the enclosure, since it was removed from the old PC?
Do you have ATI 2014 Premium, or just the standard ATI 2014?
Yes it has been connected to a Windows PC, via the enclosure. I have made a disk copy of it using TI 2014 on the third computer I mentioned in my original post. (I stopped there because TI 2014 would not allow this new disk to be selected as a disk to recover to).
This is the Premium version of ATI 2014.
Some new information. My old machine is actually booting up without an issue now. If needed, I can use the bootable version of ATI on the old machine.
Booting from Windows with the IDE drive connected in an enclosure would cause at least one of teither it or the internal HD to be rendered non-bootable. That's because Windows doesn't allow seeing two Windows boot drives. Whether the same thing could occur just by connecting the IDE drive after Windows has already booted, which I assume is when you connected it, I don't know. Perhaps someone who knows can comment. If you had not yet connected it, I would have suggested making a backup image using the ATI bootable Rescue Media to avoid the risk of connection under Windows.
Assuming that the OS drive has not been made non-bootable, here's what I would do:
- Create a full disk mode image of the IDE drive.
- Boot from the ATI bootable Rescue Media.
- Perform a Universal Restore of that image to the drive on the new PC. You will need to assemble at least some of the drivers for the different hardware on the new PC, which must be available as part of the restore. Some can wait until after booting following the restore, such as the video drivers - you can suffer through the low-resolution display until then. But certain critical drivers such as chipset will be needed as part of the restore.
- After booting (we hope) the new system from the restored drive, you can then add drivers for the rest of your hardware.
tuttle,
I have created the full disk mode backup of the IDE drive. It is being stored on a third computer.
Can I simply transfer the image to a flash drive and restore it from the bootable version of ATI?
Yes. The instructions I gave you are the same no matter the location of the image.