Re: Does XP Prof. support software mirroring?

Malke - Not too long ago I dropped my SCSI Ultra-160 for SATA-1.
Since the Motherboard controlled the SATA, All I had to do was do a
image recovery to the new SATA drives and toggle the Intel BIOS to
a different Boot Device/Controller.
If he buys a SATA card, it should have BIOS control on it. I would
think that if he adds the SATA controller to his existing IDE setup that
he could get by with a "Clone" - as long as on the first boot with only
the SATA's he enters the PCI Card setup and configures his devices.
He might have a problem if his motherboard BIOS can't handle boot
from a alternate controller. Best I remember, most of those SATA
card BIOS setup/scan routines run after the mainboard one. Either way
I would probably take a System Image before starting the switch over.

"Malke" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O3%23R7mSbFHA.1384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Torrey Lauer wrote:
>
>> Haggis,
>>
>> So, you are saying, that by using the software from WD, I should not
>> have to reload Windows or any applications, right?
>>
>
> The normal procedure is:
>
> 1. You buy a new hard drive and connect it in your computer as slave.
> 2. You run the utility that came with the drive if you bought retail or
> that you downloaded if you bought whitebox.
> 3. The utility copies your old drive (in the machine as master for now)
> to your new drive. Then you move the new drive to master. If you want,
> you can keep the old drive, format it, and use it for extra storage.
>
> *BUT* - This assumes the two drives are the same in terms of how they
> are connected to the motherboard. Since your old drive is IDE and your
> new drive not only is SATA but attaches to the system with a pci
> controller card, I don't think this is going to work for you. The
> problem will be that if you did a fresh install of XP with a drive on
> the controller card, you would have needed to provide drivers for the
> controller card (F6) during setup. Those drivers won't be available on
> the copy the drive utility makes, so I doubt that Windows will boot. It
> probably won't even see the SATA drive. If you want to confirm this,
> contact the tech support of either the hard drive or the pci
> controller.
>
> My *guess* is that you will have to back up your data and do a clean
> install, but that is *only* a guess on my part. I would make the
> necessary phone calls to tech support to find out for sure.
>
> Malke
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