I need to clone older IDE drive to new SATA drive with a dual booting O/S
systems:

Windows XP & Mepis 7 64-bit Linux... Using grub (Will this need to be
edited to find Windows and the Linux distro?)

I understand I can boot a live CD and then use the dd command to clone
the 80 gig IDE drive attached as a sdc1 to the Larger 320 gig SATA drive
sda0... If I set bios to use Sata hard drive only, the slave position on
the CD drive cable will still be available...

I do not want to image, I only want to clone the existing 80 gig to to
the new SATA drive. Will I need to prepare the new SATA drive as a boot
drive, with the partitions or is the dd command the entire solution and
will do everything?

The 80 gig IDE drive is installed in a motherboard that provides support
for both IDE and SATA - ECS ASterope3/RC410

I am not certain about windows, will I need to reactivate with the hard
drive change, will that be a problem? Or, a phone call to reactivate
after a booting with the SATA drive...

JR