I'm assuming that your motherboard supports both IDE and SATA drives.
You should be able to enter the BIOS setup when the computer is booting and set the drives the way you want., to boot from the SATA drive.
You don't have to set the IDE drive as slave because it isn't a slave to another IDE drive.
Then if you should ever need to boot the PC from the IDE drive you'd just change the boot order in BIOS again.
As for cloning the entire drive, I'd start by going to the drive manufacturer's web site. They may have a utility for doing that. Otherwise there are
utilities around that do that job.
However, Windows may get upset at the change and ask you to reactivate.
Do any readers have experience with this process?
Paul ZuckerJoseph ChiaPosted: 28/08/2009
re: Making IDE slave to SATA
You could use the BIOS setup to change the order of booting for which hard disk first. Another way is to take out IDE ata drive and plug your Sata drive, boot up and few seconds then turn off again and now install your IDE ATA drive. Then boot up your computer.
This depend on your M/B.
Joseph
viciousnedPosted: 27/08/2009
re: Making IDE slave to SATA
Acronis true image work brilliantly. not hugely expensive, and takes a perfect image of the hard drive in only short while
cumagutzaPosted: 26/08/2009
re: Making IDE slave to SATA
The "utilities" would be way I would go if I wanted to follow that path. I, now, always like to have a fresh system, so I have my data backed up and install a new/fresh operating system. Honestly, my system is working really well now, so now would be the time to take a "snapshot" of it for the future. Then again, I might be able to rebuild it better ;).
Matt