Re: How to move XP boot drive from IDE to SATA hd ?

Yes, but the exact procedure depends on your mobo/sata controler

ie You use the utility supplied from the hd manufactureres site to clone the
installation, or a third party utility, eg Ghost, True Image.
But where you go from there depends as to whether you have to amend bios
settings to boot from sata, or set the sata drive as jbod, or install
drivers via F6 option.
You need to read the mobo manual.


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I currently have 2 IDE (master and slave) hd's on IDE port 1
(XP boot drive on C:\ ...first partition on hd0)
I have 2 SATA150 connectors on my board, so if I fit 2 SATA hd's, is it
possible to mirror my XP installation onto a SATA hd, ...and make it the
boot drive of course ?

TIA,

regards, Richard

ps never had much to do with SATA hd's, I've deduced that I can buy SATAII
hd's and "jumper" them backwards to 150. that would come in handy if I
ever fit a board that supports SATAII.
Not insterested in RAID, not supported on my board anyway, just want to
roughly replicate my IDe drives storage layout but, get some transfer
speed back.



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