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Precautions Before IDE - Sata Clone

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I've had a **FANTASTIC** run from the Acronis clone function.

But I want to be sure I am doing the next stage safely.

I want to clone a 500 GB IDE to 1TB Sata. Are there any steps I need to take to ensure a safe clone? Both are desktop drives.

I am aware of the need to remove the IDE drive before booting the SATA clone for the first time.

Other than this, are there any steps I shold take to ensure a safe and fully functioning clone before starting?

My grateful thanks to Team Acronis - your cloning function in True Image has kept my radio station alive!

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Your prior posting and response from Yana provided good advice. Click on my signature link below about cloning (in tan or gold).

As a safety precaution, you need to be prepared should this procedure cause the loss of your source drive? It does not happen often but numerous posts do post as happening. Most times it is a user choosing the wrong disk; other times it is a loss of power; other times is a hardware mismatch. The point is, there is risk in cloning so it is best to have a current full disk backup available as a prudent safety precaution.

You do not indicate which version of Windows nor which version of TI is involved??

Does this happen to be Dell or Lenova or ThinkPad machine?

Do a simulated restore and look at the summary page for an idea as to what sizes TI will make your various partitions--or are you going to do a clone using the manual methods and control your own partition sizes.

Thanks for detailed reply. This will be a full Desktop IDE to Desktop SATA with Windows XP Home. I've had a great run IDE to IDE but never tried IDE to SATA. Just want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.