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    jlisenbe Posts: 5,020, Reputation: 157
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    Nov 15, 2010, 01:40 PM
    Replacing a hard drive
    My hard drive is going out (bad sectors). I would like to simply replace it. In the old IDE days, as well as I can remember, you could install the new drive (slave), then xcopy with DOS C: to D:. Then remove the old drive, set the new drive to master, and reboot. Am I remembering that right, and does it work the same way with SATA?
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    Nov 27, 2010, 07:19 PM

    Your hard drive won't boot if you just copy the info.

    You have to use a hard drive cloning tool like Norton Ghost.
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    Dec 1, 2010, 07:27 AM
    Yes it does
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    Dec 1, 2010, 05:20 PM

    Yes it does, as in SATA and IDE work the same?
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