I hadn't considered the part about the partition info and I don't know
enough about SATA either. Cloning does sound like a better option if it
can be done with SATA. At the worst, I could just try it. As long as
I'm not changing anything on the original drive (and I have proper
backups of all my data), I should always be able to swap back if I
can't get it to work.

Anyway, thanks for the info and luck.

--Chris