Re: SATA and MBR

On Nov 26, 11:54 pm, Bjorn <Bj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Note here that it seems to me that all programs I have tried to change mbr
back seems to do not work with SATA drives.
Also installing Windows on a SATA drive can be difficult sometimes.


"Also installing Windows on a SATA drive can be difficult sometimes."
This is so true. I just build a system with SATA drives and even
though I am pretty proficient with PCs, it took me two whole days.
The hardware was top of the line and modern, and the Hitachi Sata
drive I used had the latest drivers built into Vista, but still, in
the end, the only way I could boot from the Sata drive was to first
install an IDE as the primary C: drive, then use Norton Ghost to
"diskcopy" the C: drive onto a Sata drive, then physically switch the
drives and fiddle with the BIOS and motherboard switches. Before I
figured this out I spent a day doing other fixes, to no avail.

Also your problem underscores the importance of backing up an image of
the harddrive, using Norton Ghost or equivalent, onto a seperate,
external HD.

RL
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