Re: What if I switch a harddrive to a different motherboard?

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David, time to start over from ground zero. Let's keep things
as simple as possible. Forget about S-ATA drives. Start with a
blank IDE HD. Attach this HD as Master (or single) to the IDE
cable to the Primary IDE controller. Attach an optical drive
as Master (or single) to the IDE cable to the Secondary IDE
controller. Put the Windows XP cdrom into the optical drive and
boot the computer; it will start from the cdrom drive. Run setup.
It should be pretty "automatic" for an ASUS motherboard. The
P5P800SE's is a "snap" compared to the ASUS P5WD2-E Premiums,
where builders are compelled to connect HD's to S-ATA ports and
SATA-EIDE ports.

It has been done already. I have an old Quantum Fireball 3.2 gig
harddrive that I did just what you said with. I now have a computer
that runs an old slow HD with XP.

At least I know the Mother board isn't maybe the problem. But that
still leaves me with a brand new320 gig SATA drive and another IDE 80
gig drive from another system (the 80 gig IDE already has XP and my
programs on it) that I want to port over as well...

So I tried to run the 3.2 gig IDE fireball with the 80gig IDE along
side and I got that famous error NTLDR...I am not sure why.

Woe is me.

.

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