Cloned full small drive to large drive now both full

I have use a free and open source program in the past called Clonezilla (just search for clonezilla in any search engine). The clonezilla site contains complete instruction on how to use the software and how to clone your drive. For cloning a single drive I would use the live version.

Hope this helps

As far as I am aware you can use a 640Gb drive if you can get one but that is a little too large!
120Gb should be fine.

Yes, your plan is feasible.

However, any 20GB disk-drive has a warranty that expired *YEARS* ago. So, that disk could "crash" at any time.

So, consider buying a brand-new PATA disk-drive, which comes with a 3-year warranty, temporarily disconnecting the "old" drive, connecting the "new" drive, installing Windows onto it, and then making your "current" disk-drive into a "slave" disk-drive. Reconnect the "old" drive, and copy all your "data" from the "old" disk to the "new" disk.

Note that if you buy a SEAGATE/MAXTOR disk-drive, their MAXBLAST software can automatically copy "everything" from the "old" disk to the "new" disk, and will expand the partition from 20GB to the maximum size of the new disk. Very slick!
Then, disconnect the "old" drive, and boot from the "new" drive.

I usually use a USB to IDE adaptor and software such as clonezilla

I hook up the new drive to the adaptor and then run clonezilla to duplicate the drive. If you are more experienced with other clone software such as norton ghost then use what you know best

Clone the drive and then just swap them out.

OR you could get one of those 2.5" external drive cases and use that to do the exact same thing so that when you swap the drive out you end up with a nice 40Gb external one too

prices for either the case or USB adaptor are very cheap and they are both useful to have around.

Hope that points you in the right direction

Bob.

Well you can backup the system simply with the system state. However some files will be ignored. So what you have to do is to "Clone" the disk. That is the easiest way. Most of the Disk Cloning Software are commercial and not for free. But there are a few. You can use this product. This runs on Windows (win32). XX CLONE.
Download and install it. It has a Graphical User Interface with the necessary options. The image is bootable by default. It is fairly easy to get used with. Just plugin the HDD and back it up. Make sure you properly set the SATA as a slave. These settings can be accessed via boot options in BIOS. Use del,esc,F2 or F11 to jump in to BIOS settings before the system boots Windows. Hope you know the procedure. (Otherwise the System will be boot using the SATA drive instead of the IDE drive). Online manual for XXCLONE.
If you have any commercial product such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image you can use with a hassle. They are ideal for disk imaging. You have to purchase a key how ever. If you use a torrent downloader such as Utorrent, you can download with a key. But you cannot Register the key since they are used keys. So if you like to do that (we do not enforce piracy) download and use one of them. They are user friendly software and easy to coop with.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Please rate the answer if it helps you to solve the issue.
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Hi,
It's totally up to you.
You can clone your IDE drive directly to the SATA drive or you can partition the SATA drive first before you clone the IDE.

Bear in mint that if you decide to partition the SATA drive make sure the partition is big enough to take the OS image.


Regards.

No, it's not true, but you will need to buy Partition Magic to clone the smaller drive onto the larger one.

The new MoBo and CPU might give you more trouble though. All of the windows drivers for the old MoBo will be confused when they see all new hardware. In the olden (WinNT) days, this rarely worked. Now in the WinXP SP3/Vista days, you'll probably be just fine.

Some older mainboards only allow you to use SATA after you have declared your disk through the raid utility. Watch out when you do so that you select the right configuration (Raid 0)

for cloning there must be same size drives

What software did you use for the cloning?
Ghost is the preferred method.
Be sure to choose a disk to disk clone, not a partition clone.
It sounds like you may have created a 20G partition and left 40G unallocated.
Partition Magic may also take care of the problem, if you have access to a copy.