That will work assuming your target drive where you are copying the image is 2.5 inch PATA. Doesn't matter if the "new" or "old" physical drive itself is SATA or PATA; if I read your initial post correctly, you are going to dump the created image residing on a separate external drive to the new drive (a middle man type set up). So to recap, you can go from old drive either SATA/PATA > external PATA via USB 2 bus for imaging > replace old drive with new and dump the image residing on the PATA USB2 source to either PATA/SATA natively without any problems. The only problem going from old PATA drive to new SATA drive, which I doubt your doing on a laptop, is hoping the drivers pick up properly on the SATA drive when you boot up. Data integrity and the file system itself will be the same. There will be no problems going from SATA > PATA via USB2 bus or even IDE > SATA, I know this from extensive experience. Jeremy MountainJohnson jskier at gmail.com On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > So something like this would allow me to clone directly onto my new drive? > > Sabrent 2.5" USB 2.0 to IDE/PATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure ( > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1086960&CatId=2781 > ) > > > > --- On *Fri, 5/6/11, Kathryn Hogg <kjh at flyballdogs.com>* wrote: > > > From: Kathryn Hogg <kjh at flyballdogs.com> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Cloning a hard drive? > To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 9:22 AM > > > Clonezilla is what I used for almost the same scenario. Except that I went > to microcenter and picked up an esata/usb enclosure for like $6.99, put the > new drive in it, connected to laptop, and used Clonezilla live to copy. > > Then I used gparted live to have the partition take up the whole drive, > swapped the drives and rebooted from the new hard drive. > > -- Kathryn Hogg > http://womensfooty.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <http://mc/compose?to=tclug-list@mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110506/82015bec/attachment.html>