SATA Drive in a G6 400 Gateway PC

Is there any way I can use an 80GB SATA drive in my old Gateway PC? It has
Win XP installed on a 40GB EIDE drive which would have to be cloned onto the
SATA drive, of course. Thanks in advance.

I guess that's IDE drive not EIDE. Sorry.


"KEN" <> wrote in message
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> Is there any way I can use an 80GB SATA drive in my old Gateway PC? It
> has Win XP installed on a 40GB EIDE drive which would have to be cloned
> onto the SATA drive, of course. Thanks in advance.
>

KEN wrote:
> Is there any way I can use an 80GB SATA drive in my old Gateway PC? It has
> Win XP installed on a 40GB EIDE drive which would have to be cloned onto the
> SATA drive, of course. Thanks in advance.
>
>
Ken,

It is definitely not recommended. But if you really want to, the best
way is to get a separate SATA adapter. With a system as old as a
G6-400, I have serious doubts that a SATA drive can be made bootable.
Doing so was messy enough with newer systems until Microsoft
slipstreamed SATA support into XP Service Pack 2... Ben Myers

Thanks Ben


"Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
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> KEN wrote:
>> Is there any way I can use an 80GB SATA drive in my old Gateway PC? It
>> has Win XP installed on a 40GB EIDE drive which would have to be cloned
>> onto the SATA drive, of course. Thanks in advance.
> Ken,
>
> It is definitely not recommended. But if you really want to, the best way
> is to get a separate SATA adapter. With a system as old as a G6-400, I
> have serious doubts that a SATA drive can be made bootable. Doing so was
> messy enough with newer systems until Microsoft slipstreamed SATA support
> into XP Service Pack 2... Ben Myers