Moving an OS from SATA to IDE

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I am considering moving my OS from my smaller SATA partition to a bigger IDE Drive using Ghost....I know SATA drives are generally faster, but will I notice a huge difference in performance by doing this?
 
Grimspoon said:
I am considering moving my OS from my smaller SATA partition to a bigger IDE Drive using Ghost....I know SATA drives are generally faster, but will I notice a huge difference in performance by doing this?
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how big and how old as the IDE?

What kind of SATA drive.

you should see a marginal speed increase, but not a huge amount. You would get more noticeable increases with more RAM and better graphics... unless your IDE drive was really really old.
 
How would you see a marginal speed increase going from sata to ide? i see a performance decrease and would advise against it.

Rather save up and buy a 160 gig sata drive for windows. I don't see 80 gig hdd's being sold at alot of my suppliers now but if you can find one for like 400 bucks then rather buy that. People always seem to forget that a hdd is a key factor in performance.

I know windows xp or vista on an ide drive is not smooth and nice at all, on a sata drive it runs really well.
 
Cool thanks, think I will get a 160 then...Rather than buggering about. Thanks
 
Ooops, sorry. I misread. Thought you were going to SATA from IDE.

ja, the guys are right... don't go back to older technology.
 
OK! So I went and bought myself a new 250 GB SATA drive, so that has solved that problem, NOW I have a birds nest of partitions that I seriously need to sort out.....Could you guys give me your opinion on what you would do given the space I have and where to allocate what etc....
My current setup – 250 GB drive partitioned 30GB for OS and the rest for storage....
Now the obvious problem is that 30 GB for OS is not nearly enough (Killdoob did warn me), with XP this was ok but Vista and the updates are a hungry bunch....
So I now have another 250 GB drive and I plan on Ghosting the 30 GB partition to a bigger drive / partition....Now should I use the entire new 250 GB for OS? Or partition that a bit smaller? Not actually sure the best thing to do.
 
O and one more thng - Is norton ghost the best to use? Will it make an exact image of my drive? Sorry I have never done this :)
 
Well it all comes down to personal preference here but i always have a dedicated drive for my windows install.

Try norton but acronis true image is better. Vista has a back up system as well, i have never used it so unsure if it works well.
 
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My browsing and multi-tasking performance increased a TON when I moved from IDE to SATA. Moving from SATA to IDE is just not logical imho.

If you really are hellbent on moving your OS I would recommend creating a new small partition on one of your HDD's and backing up all the stuff you want to keep onto that partition (Fonts, Documents, Music, Game Saves ect.) Then Format your old windows partition and do a fresh install (nothing like a new install for a fresh start, it gets rid of all the nasties that build up over time on your pc :D)

Once windows is installed again just move your backed-up files back into your new installation and merge the unused backup partition with your current partition again. Works like a charm.

P.S. sorry if im not making much sense, only got about 2 hours of sleep last night thanks to Fallout3 -.- this day is killing me lol
 
Acronis True Image moves the primary active partition to another physical drive. Great tool. I use Acronis True Image Echo Workstation, and it's never failed me. Just make sure your CHKDSK your drive before creating an image.

Oh, just make sure you don't boot your PC with two primary active partitions - Windows will detect them and disable one. Once you've cloned the OS partition, shut down, remove the old/source drive, and then boot up with the new/target drive.
 
Ok I have decided to partition the new drive 80 for OS and the rest as storage that way I have plenty for OS and programs and don’t have to format the entire drive if I ever need to reinstall.

@Zulash - This is a fresh install of Vista 64, I didn’t realise I needed more than 30GB to run it comfortably that is why I need to move it to a bigger drive.
 
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Arthur said:
Acronis True Image moves the primary active partition to another physical drive. Great tool. I use Acronis True Image Echo Workstation, and it's never failed me. Just make sure your CHKDSK your drive before creating an image.

Oh, just make sure you don't boot your PC with two primary active partitions - Windows will detect them and disable one. Once you've cloned the OS partition, shut down, remove the old/source drive, and then boot up with the new/target drive.
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Thanks for the tips Arthur! Good chance I would have just booted both :D
 
Arthur said:
Oh, just make sure you don't boot your PC with two primary active partitions - Windows will detect them and disable one. Once you've cloned the OS partition, shut down, remove the old/source drive, and then boot up with the new/target drive.
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Just a thought on that, do I unplug the old drive, boot up and see if everything is working and then plug that old drive back in?

Should I not swap the new drive to SATA1 slot on my Mobo?
 
Hmm I am trying to use this Acronis TrueImage with no luck....I select Utilities -> Clone Disk and select the manual method, I select the source disk and the destination disk, but then it wont let me manually re layout the primary partition, I want the 30 gig source partition to be cloned to the 80 gb destination, but it just wont let me create a 80 gb partition...doesn’t make much sense, basically I cant clone the original size to anything bigger...then what’s the point of this software?
 
What version you using?

I click backup, then my computer, i tick the source drive, then i saved the image to a seperate hdd, create new full backup, use default options, then proceed.
 
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