hdd ide to sata; which way to go

[Stephen]

I use clonezilla at work here all the time, and its much like having
an opensource equivalent to Acronis or Ghost available to do disk to
image or disk to disk operations and copies.

no pretty gui but very powerful and a good way to get use to the
powerful Linux disk management tools.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, betty <nicepenguin at webcanine.com> wrote:
> This is the last forum for my research on this project, everyone's
> advice here has always been most helpful. Although i haven't needed too
> much advice lately (since linux is sooo stable !)
>
> I have an old pentium 3 with ide  hdd that i have been using for many
> years. It is a little slow (to say the least) especially running
> multiple apps.
> I was just given a dell optiplex mini form factor w/pentium 4 and sata
> drive connectors. (*no hdd*).
> It looks like there are two options here;
>
>  i can get ide to sata connectors and use my old drive so nothing really
> changes and it seems easy, however the hdd is old (maybe 10 years) so i
> risk eventual hardware failure.
> or
> i can get a sata drive and copy everything to it. seems best way to me.
> not that much more expensive. will last longer  etc.
>
> question: if i go for option two, is there a way to copy (like mirror)
> my old drive stuff to the new one so it works and looks the same to
> me???, if so how do i do that? (the old computer does not have a working
> cdrw)
> or do i need to do a new install and copy my files over :(
>
> thanks for your patience and help in advance.
>
> --
> betty i.
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