Thanks for the welcome saikee
Im now passing on my 160GB sata drive to my father who had a 120GB ide drive using the dd function its taking a lot longer . . im in the third hour i think, last time it took 1.5 hours, is this because it has to go from the IDE bus thingy to the Sata bus?. I used the same parameters as before. Ill let you know how it goes.