Re: Ghost Operating System to SATA drive

If required (depends on motherboard)t he necessary files will be found
on the motherboard installation CD.
You just copy them to a diskette.


"Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> You MUST do a repair installation, AND use F6 to load the SATA drivers.
>
> Further, these drivers must be on a floppy, not on a CD. If yo do not
> have a floppy, get one, since the alternative of trying to slip-stream the
> drivers into the XP CD as not for most home users.
>
> Note that the SATA drivers come from the motherboard maker, not the hard
> drive maker. Or, if using a PCI-to-SATA board, from whomever made that
> board.
>
>
> "ggarret1" <ggarret1.1t85pm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ggarret1.1t85pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> I have been running Windows XP on an IDE drive. I just got a Serial ATA
>> drive and I want to transfer my operating system to the SATA drive.
>>
>> I hooked up the SATA drive and particioned it with Windows Disk
>> manager. Then I used Norton Ghost to ghost my c drive to the new drive
>> - I checked to "copy MBR" box. I then restarted and set the boot order
>> in the BIOS to boot from the new drive. I also disconnected my IDE
>> drives.
>>
>> I got a boot error (It couldn't be that simple could it?)
>>
>> I have about a gagzillion programs installed and it would take me a
>> couple of weeks to reinstall them all. If I could ghost the operating
>> system it would be a big time saver.
>>
>> I thought about doing a repair with the Windows installation disk. If
>> you chose "repair an existing installation" does it give you that F6
>> option to install a third party SATA or RAID driver?
>>
>> Anyway, I'm not sure that is the way to go.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appriciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Garth
>>
>>
>> --
>> ggarret1
>
>


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