Re: How to copy/move XP boot drive from ide to sata hd ?

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"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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HOW do I copy or move my (ide) XP Home (all MS updated) boot partition, to
a SATA hd ?
I've got Ghost 9, can I do it with that ?

ATM I have xp home sp2 on PATA hd on ide0. There are two SATA 150 ports
on my motherboard and after going around in circles for ages and noting
that I don't have eSATA ....and can't do SATA2/300...etc ...phew !
...etc.
...oh my God, where was I ?

If I fit two SATA hd's (I don't want RAID - not supported on my board
anyway), ...I'd at least get my transfer speeds back to what they were
when I had, (different mobo), 2 x ATA133 IDE hd's in my main system box
using UDMA6, ...before changing motherboard / slipped up and ended up, as
now, with a motherboard that can only manage ATA100 on ide, ...though
having said that, my slave IDE Maxtor 6Y080L0 is reported in bios as using
UDMA6 ?
...oh done it again !

HOW do I copy or move my (ide) boot partition, to a SATA hd ?

(...I know that I have to install some sort of overlay or driver form the
motherboard CD to use the SATA hardware on the motherboard).

TIA regards, Richard



Methinks, but don't know, that you have one of those 2 ide port jobs with 2
SATA I ports. Also, but don't know, you probably have only one way in the
bios setup to make the SATA drives bootable. In that process, you will lose
accessibility to one ide port at minimum. There's also, probably, a way to
map the SATA to ide in the bios setup.

Lot of distractors in your post. So is the non-existent needed pertinent
information that Peg noted as well. Seems intended for some reason from
where I sit.
Dave


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