On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:43:24 GMT, AP <> had
a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
>OK.... little bit off topic ... but Im trying to use SATA option on my
>KV8MAX3 matherboard with no success. I think it is no actually board
>related but I hope that someone will be able to help me with my problem.
>
>Here is current situation:
>I have 1 old P-ATA hard drive with two partition setted up C and D. It
>is the only drive I have.
>Windows XP with all updates
>
>What I want to accomplish:
>- move all data to new SATA drive be able to boot and remove old drive
>
>I connected new drive and booted computer ... drive recognized
>Drive is connected to SATA 1 (via) and I have drivers loaded.
>I partitioned/formated new drive (with disk manager) and copied drive
>using Ghost (making sure that new first drive is marked as active and
>bootable ... with MBR transfered). I assigned drive letters F and G to
>the new drive
>
>
>
>After booting computer (with old drive still in computer). Computer is
>booting and it seems it is booting from new SATA drive. In disk manager
>new SATA drive still has F and G letters assigned (hmm??? can boot
>drive be diffrent that C ????)
>
>When I booted computer without old drive ... it boots to the moment when
>it suppose to show logging screen (it boots through the screen with
>slidebar). It does not show logging screen, instead I see small windows
>logo on blue screen and thats it.
>
>I boot computer again with old drive in .... seems to be working.
>shows SATA partitions as F and G and old drive as C and D
>
>So... what is on old drive (please note that I used copy drive option
>.... not backup or copy) that causes new drive not to boot FULLY.
>
>Like I said ..... it boots to cerain moment - so MBR is on the drive
>
>Any suggestions? HELP!!!!
>
>
>AP
The way I did it with my IC7-MAX3:
1-Shutdown the pc.
2-Installed new SATA drive.
3-Booted the pc and made sure the sata drivers were installed
correctly and that the drive showed up in drive manager.
4-Used Drive Image to copy the boot drive to the new unformatted sata
drive.
5-Shutdown the pc.
6-Disconnect the original ide boot drive. [required step]
7-Set the bios settings to boot off the sata drive.
8-Boot off the new sata drive.
If you don't disconnect the original boot drive, XP will use it to
complete the boot up. If it is removed afterwards, XP will fail to
boot off the new drive, since it will be referencing the old boot
drive.
Once XP has booted off the new sata drive, the original ide boot drive
can be reconnected.
Stephen
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