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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
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In message , 
james@nospam.com writes:
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>Thanks for all the replies.
>I bought on ebay, two 40 pin (3.5" drive) to 44pin (2.5" laptop drive)
>connectors.
>
>Here is the plan, I hope it will work.
>
>I have a desktop puter with XP booting from a SATA drive. There is a IDE
>connector on the motherboard. The plan is to connect both the old 40gb
>drive and the new 160gb drive to that IDE connector, using those

You _may_ need to get _power_ to the little drives (unless those 
adaptors include a plug for drive power).

>adaptors. I hope it boots from the SATA drive, not the OS on that 40gb
>drive. (I dont know if there is a way to control that). If it works to

There may be something in your BIOS settings.

>that point, I will simply run Partition Magic from the boot drive, and
>clone that 40gb to the 160gb drive.
>
>Ques: If I clone that whole 40gb drive, will I get a 40gb partition on
>the new drive? Actually, that would be fine. I will keep the 40gb
>partition as the boot one, and the remaining 120gb will be for
>downloading and storing videos and music.

Sounds a good policy. Most of us (with some exceptions) prefer to keep 
data (pictures, music, videos, documents ... basically anything a 
program _produces_ as opposed to the various parts of the software 
itself) on a separate, usually D:, partition.
>
>Before cloning, I may dump my current music and videos to a flash drive,
>so there is less to clone. THe main thing that needs to be cloned is the
>OS and the programs.

Depends on your (and Partition Magic's) interpretation of the word 
"clone". Some interpretations assume clone to mean a complete copy of 
the drive, including the unused parts. If PM can only copy the used 
parts, it _will_ be quicker. (Though the movement you propose to a flash 
drive - and back - will be slow, assuming your flash drive - and 
interfaces to it - are USB2 at best; it'd be a lot quicker via internal 
disc transfer, I _think_. [You can always move the stuff from C: to the 
new D: partition afterwards.]
>
>I can move that file storage back from the flash drive later.
>
>One other thing, will XP need to be re verified with MS due to the new
>hard drive?
>
Well, mine didn't. Is it an XP that came preinstalled, or one you 
installed yourself? (Though I don't _think_ that affects the answer to 
that question.)
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