Windows XP on a SATA drive

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My new computer came with Windows Vista and a SATA drive. I'm either on an IDE drive or a PATA drive right now, and I want to just ghost this windows XP over that Windows Vista. The only problem is, I don't know if I can just do that outright like that. I'd love it if I could, but I think theres drivers I need and neither computer has a Floppy drive.

Can anyone confirm this for me?

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Before I can even do that, every time I try to connect to the Ghost console I get this error

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|Not Connected............................|X|

|??????????????????????????????|

|.%1 is not a valid win32 application..|

|................. _____..........................|

|................. | OK |..........................|

|.....................................................|

???????????????????????????????

I tried :P

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You could have a look around in one of my forums below which has everything relating to Ghost?

Radified Community Forum

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Be careful with some third-party disk defragmenting tools when using a SATA drive formatted with NTFS. The info straight from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941715/en

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Be careful with some third-party disk defragmenting tools when using a SATA drive formatted with NTFS. The info straight from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941715/en

Which microsoft products does microsoft want me to buy to transfer my drive? :P

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I gave up on Ghost, does anyone know a Drive Backup program that can archive this system AND the Vista system (tl;dr I need a vista ready program that works on XP too)

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Haven't tried the below but Paragon do make some quality apps.Dunno if there's a catch to the below free offer?

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