Replacing boot PATA with a WD Raptor SATA in XP?

[GoblinToe]

Hi, all! I'm about to upgrade in a few days and would be very grateful if someone could answer this question for me.

Currently I have this system:

3.0ghz Intel
P4P800 Deluxe mobo
40 gig WD PATA as Primary Master
160 GIG Maxtor PATA as Primary Slave
160 GIG Maxtor PATA as Seconary Master
Lite-On CDR as Secondary Slave.


My boot 40 gig drive is starting to die, and I'd love to replace it with a WD Raptor 10k RPM SATA drive in this XP system.

Is this as simple as cloning my boot drive onto the Raptor, plugging the SATA drive in, and rebooting, or is XP going to blow up because of a driver issue?

Also, is it ok to mix SATA and PATA drives like this? Will I still gain the performance boost from having a 10k RPM drive as my boot drive even though I have two other PATA drives installed as well?

Thank you VERY much for any advice!

 

[Nocturnal]

Do you have a floppy disk drive? If so, no problem. If you don't, you're going to have to slipstream your Windows XP files along with your SATA motherboard drivers onto one cd so that when you install WinXP it automatically installs your SATA motherboard drivers.

 

[GoblinToe]

Well, what I was curious about was, can I just clone my existing installed XP system on the failing 40 gig drive over to the Raptor? Just like I could do with another PATA drive, easily.

But when I boot again with my OS now on the Raptor will my OS recognize the boot drive since it'll be SATA instead of the original PATA drive?

 

[Zinn2b]

JUST make sure you set your onchip IDE device under interdrated perpherals in your bios to legacy mode than when u reboot press F4 and tell it to load from the current installed HDD. reboot and you should be up and running

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Zinn2b
JUST make sure you set your onchip IDE device under interdrated perpherals in your bios to legacy mode

I dont know what your talking about.

All you do is make sure you have it enabled in BIOS. Get the drivers from the website and install them for the SATA/RAID controller. Then clone and swap it over. Thats it.

-Kevin

 

[Velk]

Originally posted by: GoblinToe

But when I boot again with my OS now on the Raptor will my OS recognize the boot drive since it'll be SATA instead of the original PATA drive?

No.

At a bare minimum you will need to change your BIOS to enable 'boot from other', add SATA into the boot sequence order, and pray that if you have multiple controllers to handle PATA/SATA that it assigns the drive letters in the correct order. Other motherboard specific complications may or may not occur after that.

It's worth a try I guess, but I would make sure you have the SATA driver disk, an XP CD and be prepared to reinstall XP if it doesn't work.

 

[GoblinToe]

Thanks, everyone! This helps me tremendously!

Can't wait to get that Raptor in the mail now!