Changing DC harddisk

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I want to upgrade the hardware I'm using for a domain controller in a small
network.

The new computer I'll be using has a sata hard drive. While the existing DC
has a IDE hard drive.

I don't want to have to reinstall active directory, or restore system state
as I have tried restoring system sate on a different computer before and of
cause there are problems with device drivers and such.

What I wanted to do was to put the sata drive and the IDE drive in a third
computer and copy the complete disk from the IDE drive to the sata drive
then put the sata drive in the new computer and boot it up.

I'm not really a hardware man would this work?

Any one see any problems with doing this


I have also been pointed to acronis software to do the job, any comments?

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