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question for you hard drive guru's

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hclarkjr

Lifer
just bought SATA hard drive and want to copy my boot IDE hard drive to it and use it as my boot drive. i have been reading up on loading XP onto SATA drives and want to avoid that confusion as i do not have a floppy drive and have yet to see a 100% fool proof method for integrating SATA drivers onto an XP install CD. i have partition magic and ghost. or am i wasting my time, i am currently booting with a 16 meg cache ATA133 maxtor 250GB drive and bought a 16 meg cache SATA150 maxtor 250GB drive. should i just continue to use the ATA drive?
 
If you aren't running raid, there is a good chance you don't need any SATA drives, it's not really a problem anymore. Try disconnecting the IDE drive, and attempting to install windows on to the SATA drive. If it recognizes the drive, you don't need the drivers. Actualy if you are going to clone in, just install the SATA drivers on to your PATA drive prior to cloning. Just try cloning with partition magic, then remove the PATA drive, and see if it boots up with just the SATA drive.
 
Cloning the ATA drive to the SATA drive will not work. You have a fairly new mb with a recent bios so it should support SATA drives (please check Abit's website - says it supports SATA 150 drives), and if it does you can install XP without pressing F6 to install SATA drivers, and you dont need a floppy. After you have done a fresh install of XP copy the files you need and re-install apps.
 
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