Clone XP IDE drive to XP SATA drive with no floppy?
Can I use Acronis True Image 2010 to "clone" the contents of an XP computer's IDE drive (3 partitions) to another computer that has a SATA drive but no floppy drive? The second computer is currently running Vista but I want to "downgrade" it to XP.
I've tried:
• an Acronis 2010 bootable rescue disk, which does allow me to transfer the entrire drive's contents (via an external 1TB USB drive) to the SATA disk, but offers no way of installing SATA drivers;
• an nLite CD (with SATA drivers), which installs XP and SATA drivers . . . only to be overwritten by the Acronis restore;
• a BartPE CD, which only gets me to the "F6 floppy" stumbling block.
Am I trying the impossible: recovering the Acronis backup onto the SATA drive of an XP computer and getting SATA drivers installed there also?

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