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

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"GHalleck" <ghalleck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David D wrote:

windows first uses bios to boot the hard drive, then at some point
switches over to it's intenal SATA controller drivers. I think "NTLDR
is missing" is the error message you get when NT switches over but then
can't see the hard drive due to missing drivers. This would happen if
your SATA chipset on the new MB is different from the chipset on the
old MB.

In IDE world, i was successful switching MB's without a repair install
by first forcing the IDE controller driver to "Standard IDE driver" in
device manager. This allowed the driver to see the new IDE controller
on the new MB and boot up. I could then let windows change it to the
appropriate contoller once the system started up.

I doubt something similar exists in SATA world. You may be able to
visually identify the SATA chipset on the new MB, and force install the
drivers on the old motherboard prior to moving the HD over.

-MVL


Well, Ihave 2 IDE drives that I would like to make the switch with - so
how do I force the ID controller when it won't let me boot because of
the NTLDR?

The SATA drive is brand new, so it shouldn't have any old drivers.

So, I am stuck now because even when the SATA is unplugged, I can't put
the XP IDE drive on the system. I even went and defaulted the BIOS,
but for some reason my 80gig IDE drive will not boot with this new
mother board....

Any idea after hearing this? I am really frustrated by this...


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.



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