Can I clone my old PC? I mean OLD


  1. XPalidocious
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    Can I clone my old PC? I mean OLD


    I have a 2002 HP Pavillion we used for the whole family for a long time. It was working fine when I last used it many moons ago. It should still. I backed up the drive(s) it had with a Seagate slim 1TB @ 2016 but I think I just copied and pasted content.

    Most storage is there but I'm noticing I can't find things I am looking for that should be somewhere. I can't recall how I did this as I never attempted it before then. It seems to me there are things like application data, program files etc. that just are not present. I know I had recording software than worked on that PC that I can't find and nothing related to chat programs that I know should be there.

    Here I am in 2024 and we're now using SSD and this thing has ATA drives in it. I don't know where to begin. I'd like to retrieve everything that makes that PC what it is into something modern.

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    Version 22H2
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    OS build 19045.2965
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  3. FroggyTheGremli
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    If you originally just did copy'n'paste with your DATA... too many things will be missing to fully utilize that DATA copy in any reasonable way. Only an IMAGE of that System (done using some sort of imaging utility) will be of any real use at this stage.

    You may be able to retrieve some app consistent DATA (Documents/Pictures,Videos/Downloads... hard to do if anything other than app DATA files) but I think that's about it.
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  4. XPalidocious
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    I originally added a 160 gig drive (just for storage) to the original 50Gig. The original has C and D on it. I've been using an Insignia docking station to clone SATA drives as needed but I don't know what to do with the ATA's, which I think are referred to as IDE drives.

    What would be the safest way and easiest to connect this old drive to anything? Remove it? Adapter? USB from old PC?
    I used to have Macrium Reflect on my previous PC and kinda got used to it before using a hardware device to clone.

    Thanks for responding btw
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  6. Berton
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    I'll venture that a computer that old had IDE Hard Disk Drives [now referred to as PATA/Parallel ATA] that have been replaced with SATA/Serial ATA Hard Disk Drives. It's the type of connection to the motherboard. Newer SSD/Solid State Drives will be either SATA or the even newer NVMe M.2 SSDs.

    I keep on hand a USB adapter kit that includes the 40-pin plug for the PATA drives plus a power adapter with the 4-pin Molex plug for the drive. Haven't checked if they are still available lately.

    The SATA refers to a single drive connected to a port on the motherboard and the PATA refers to a flat ribbon cable that one end plugs onto the motherboard with the other end to an HDD called Master and middle plug for a drive called Slave.
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