Re: Adding IDE Drive to New System with ATA / SATA Architecture

Your old winxp drive is never going to boot up on your new PC - different
hardware -
Connect the old drive as slave then copy the data from it to your new Vists
drive

"Derek King" <u48459@uwe> wrote in message news:8f5bf04f8c1e4@xxxxxx
Finally got a new system, made my buy, no problem with Vista [ Hitachi
HDP725
SCSI 160GB HD ], (new drive). Added Maxtor 'OneTouch' USB 500GB external
HD
for backup. I attached my Samsung SP1203N 120GB HD using a UDMA connection
cable to the primary IDE connection on the system board. The OS is WinXP
Pro
SP2

When I rebooted I went to the BIOS to see the drive was recognized, and it
showed an accurate approximation of used and available space. Exited BIOS,
restarted, and came up to the "start option" for improper OS shut down /
start correctly. Restarted, and the WinXP Pro SP2 I have on the drive will
not start up.

I'm not getting a 'blue' screen. When I connect the 'old' drive with the
'new' drive up and running the Vista, my 'old' drive isn't detected. Back
in
BIOS I noticed that my 'old' drive is either in the HD 1 or 2 slot and the
'new' drive is ALWAYS listed in the 3 slot. In short ... if I connect the
old
drive and restart the old drive comes up first, and the OS won't start. If
I
try to connect the old drive while running, detecting or adding hardware
doesnt work and the drive will not show in "my computer".

Is there a way for me to get around this problem without trying to repair
/
recover the XP on the old drive and save the data? I believe a repair or
recover could ruin critical information.



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