Re: How to move XP boot drive from IDE to SATA hd ?
- From: "RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:17 +0100
.... thank you :-)
regards, Richard
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.
Further to DL's suggestions: You could also try this:
- Format the SATA disk under WinXP.
- Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD.
- Use this command to copy the IDE disk to the SATA disk:
xcopy /s /e /c /d /o /y /h /r /k C:\ D:\
(assuming that C: is your IDE and D: your SATA disk.
Your success depends on the Bart PE boot CD recognising
the SATA disk. If it does not then you can do the same thing
in a two-step process:
1. While under a Bart PE boot, use xcopy as above to copy
drive C: to a parking area, e.g. a different partition or a
spare IDE disk.
2. While running WinXP, use xcopy to copy the stuff from the
parking are to the SATA disk.
As DL said, you must tell your BIOS to boot off the SATA disk
and perhaps supply a suitable SATA driver. Make sure to
disconnect the IDE disk on the first SATA boot!
.
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