I have a new system (ASUS P5B-VM, C2D E6600, 2GB RAM.. blah blah..) using an old Western Digital HDD which I wish to clone onto a new HDD.

I'm unsure as to where I'd plug the 2nd HDD in to clone it as I tried to plug it in to the the 2nd socket of the SATA 1, 2, 3, 4 sockets and when I use my cloning software (Acronis True Image 9) it says there isn't a 2nd HDD to clone onto. The 2nd drive is formatted and recognised by Windows in the Disk Management Window

Has anyone cloned an HDD on the P5B-VM?? If so, I'd be pleased to know how to too..... My next plan of action was to plug the drive into the e-SATA socket on the back of the system to see if it would be recognised then as u need to plug an HDD into the back of the system so u can enable a RAID array...

Many thanks

Rob

Well, cant say i have used a P5B-VM, but im to assume your trying to clone a drive to begin a raid array?

nah i just wanna clone the drive and contniue running with one HDD.

Well, True image should work perfectly for you as far as cloning. If not, try to download a free trial of Norton Ghost. Its basically the same thing, just a few extra steps involved. If you need directions on how to use norton Ghost just ask away. And feel free to email me with any furture problems.

acronis is also a good cloning program

Acronis Boot CD great for backup and transfer the backup to any network PC you have or local HD or External HD even on a network PC. Easy to restore the data also. Full program allows you to admin the images as plug-in drives so you would open the image as another HDD. That to is so easy use.