about upgrading ide to sata HDD

[guest]

i currently have a ~75gb maxtor ata100 hdd in my computer. i am considering upgrading to a higher capacity SATA hard drive. i am assuming because i have the SATA drivers installed within windows (after windows setup) that it will work fine if i upgrade the same way as ide-ide. the thing i am worried about is that the drivers might not work when installed that way. i have nothing to lose by trying it when i buy the hdd, but i am wondering if i will have to re install or if it will work fine like that. i wouldnt mind re installing but would prefer to just clone the drive. if it works correctly i will just wipe the old hard drive for data storage usage. i am using the asus m2npv-mx motherboard which has an nforce 430 chipset, windows xp and the bios is the latest version available. i think the bios has an option to decide what is the "first hard drive" - but i will physically remove the ide harddrive after the cloning.

 

[ssc456]

yeah it should be fine assuming you have sata connections on your motherboard and a sata power cable as most sata drives dont come with power connector

you should use a program like norton ghost to copy it

 

[nayr1991]

i am also thinking about upgrading to SATA. sorry for hijaking thread im just wondering if my old seagate 120gb IDE HDD would work with one of the new WD 250gb SATA HDD. i have all the drivers installed and SATA power cable.