Need Advice Regarding re-install of XP pro

[Heliskier59]

I have win xp pro os currently installed on a eide 80 gb wd hard drive. my second hard drive is a 200GB seagate EIDE. My Third hard drive is a SCSI cheetah 36GB 15k rpm off a tekram 390u2w controller. I want to move the os to the scsi drive. What wouldbe the best/easisest way to do this? Can I leave the os on the 80GB, change the boot sequence,and fresh install on the scsi drive?

 

[talyn00]

I would start fresh, but thats my personal preference

 

[MrChad]

I would physically disconnect both the 80 GB drive and the 200 GB drive (leaving only the SCSI). Change your boot sequence, then load up XP setup and install on the SCSI drive. The reason for disconnecting the other two drives is that Windows setup tends to mis-assign drive letters when you are installing to a SCSI / RAID drive and have other IDE devices attached. Once you have windows successfully installed, reattach the other two drives and boot up.

 

[Heliskier59]

When I originally installed the xp os, xp setup refused to acknowledge the presence of my scsi drive until I attached an eide drive to the mobo. Bizarre behavior for sure... I spent days trying to trouble shoot this...Any idea why this would be the case? I was very careful to load the scsi controller drivers during the setup procedure, and setup would acknowledge the driver install, but no drives would be present accoring to the OS when the time came to select the partion for os install. Only when I attached an old 1 gb eide hard drive to the mobo did the OS setup progrram then suddenly recognize
the scsi drive...

 

[Unsolved Paradox]

Fresh install; trying to shift an installed O/S from one partition to another is extremely dicey...

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Heliskier59
I have win xp pro os currently installed on a eide 80 gb wd hard drive. my second hard drive is a 200GB seagate EIDE. My Third hard drive is a SCSI cheetah 36GB 15k rpm off a tekram 390u2w controller. I want to move the os to the scsi drive. What wouldbe the best/easisest way to do this? Can I leave the os on the 80GB, change the boot sequence,and fresh install on the scsi drive?

No problem. Here's what you need to do:

1. Confirm that the 80GB drive's Windows install sees and fully recognizes the SCSI controller and disk(s) attached to it. Confirm the correct driver is loaded and everything looks good.
2. Ghost from the 80GB drive to the 36GB SCSI drive.
3. Set the BIOS to boot from the SCSI disk.
4. You're done.

It's that simple. In your situation, changing the controller is dead-simple because you've already got the new SCSI card's drivers installed in your current registry, so all you need to do is ghost the data to that drive.

Obviously, you'll lose whatever you have on the 36GB drive, so copy whatever's on there that you want to another drive first.