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PATA to SATA via Ghost2003 - what should I expect?

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Jeff H

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Guys,

I recently completed a system upgrade. FYI here?s the setup: EPoX EP-4PDA2+ mainboard, P4-2.8MHz C (not overclocked), Corsair XMS PC3200 TwinX 1GB (2x512MB), ATi 9600XT 128MB vid card, Samsung 40GB 3MB cache PATA drive on HighPoint 372 onboard controller, LiteOn 16X DVD, LiteOn 48x CD-RW, onboard Broadcom NIC, Audigy2 PCI sound card.

I?ve Ghosted (2003) over the Samsung to both CD-R?s and a spare HD. I?m contemplating moving up to a Samsung 120GB 8MB cache SATA drive, to be connected to the onboard SI 3112 controller, as a single drive.

Does anyone have any experience w/ Ghost 2003 in this environment? Any gotcha?s you?re aware of? Is this the proper procedure for making this setup work?:

- remove current 40GB from HPT controller
- setup up SATA drive w/ proper drive and power cables (came w/ 4PDA2+)
- enable SATA in BIOS
- set up hard disk w/ WinXP Pro CD, ?fdisk? and format
- shut down
- Ghost over 40GB drive to 120GB SATA via floppy Ghost DOS program
- remove 40GB and set BIOS boot order to SCSI (for SATA controller)

FWIW I also have a registered copy of Acronis TrueImage 7.0. Would this be a simpler process if I did it from w/i the Windows environment, rather than from the DOS environment from which I did the Ghost imaging?

Now, having said all that, should I expect to see any ?real-world? performance improvement from the SATA drive that I wouldn?t see from a 120GB 8MB cache PATA drive?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this,

Jeff
 
As long as Ghost/Drive Image/Acronis sees the new hard drive and lets you recover to it, I don't foresee any problems.
 
Now, having said all that, should I expect to see any ?real-world? performance improvement from the SATA drive that I wouldn?t see from a 120GB 8MB cache PATA drive?
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Don't know if you would see any improvement just going from PATA to SATA with the same size/model of HDD, But you will deffinately see an improvement going from the 40G drive to the 120G drive regardless of the interface.
 
I've never done this myself, but I believe you need to install the SATA drivers in your current Windows XP installation before you do the ghosting. Otherwise you won't be able to boot off the SATA drive.

I remember reading something about this, somewhere at sometime. 🙂
 
Shogun's right. No SATA drivers = no install = no boot (if I recall correctly, that is). Not sure how you're gonna take care of that, though heh.
 
Thanks guys for the replies. Following Shogun's suggestion, it makes sense that I'd enable the Silcon Image SATA controller in the BIOS, install the SI drivers, then Ghost my current drive.

I thought of this after I posted the thread. If I add the 120GB SATA drive to XP and use the disk manangement tool in Control Panel I should be able to add it and format it. Then I can drop out to Ghost and image over the 40GB to the 120. Make sense?
 
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