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Originally Posted by SHAWN  Turn on your PC and go into your bios. Configure the 160SATA as the primary boot HDD. Boot into Windows. Open MY Computer and you should see the 80G drive. Migrate your data, shutdown and remove.
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That was part you had correct unless Windows sees the drive as a new hardware from being moved into the case after Windows has been installed. It then has to recognise the existing partition and data on it in order to see it as a logical drive.
An ide hard drive doesn't have to be masted on any cable by itself. It can easily be set as slave to the optical drive already installed and be accessible once seen as a logical drive for retrieving files even entire folders with copy and paste operations betweein the two drives.
As far as drive cloning that only works on identical systems as well as identical same sized drives. Windows has it's own unique hardware profiling seen in XP and more rigid in Vista. In Vista without a clean install on a new system you will see the "you may have a counterfeit copy of Windows" message where you are then not activated. Cloning is mainly seen in businesses with at least a small business or corporate license since they will have several identical systems.