A7N8x Deluxe and Large drives

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I have this board with original BIOS. Will it take a 200gb drive without
BIOS upgrade? Running up to date winxp pro.

Thanks
 
N Alley said:
I have this board with original BIOS. Will it take a 200gb drive without
BIOS upgrade? Running up to date winxp pro.
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What version of the BIOS is it? They all came with different ones,
depending on when you bought it. I have a 250GB SATA (non-
RAID) running under XP pro (SP2) using BIOS 1007. Works fine
and needed no "48-bit LBA" tweaks because installing XP SP2 sorts
that little problem.
HTH
 
I'm curious how do you upgrade your existing hard drive to an SATA drive
with Drive Image or something similar? If you plug in the SATA drive, will
it boot of the IDE drive and "see" the SATA for the data transfer?
 
BiG Orange said:
I'm curious how do you upgrade your existing hard drive to an SATA drive
with Drive Image or something similar? If you plug in the SATA drive, will
it boot of the IDE drive and "see" the SATA for the data transfer?
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Acronis easy migrate or true image works fine, but true image requires the
backup be stored somewhere and then installed on the new drive. The only
problem I had (after swapping eide -> sata) was when I attempted to do a
"repair" much later, the original XP OEM cd was not sp2 or even sp1a, it was
an original "sp0" and could not handle the sata when booting and I had to go
find a floppy that had the driver.


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Beemer Biker said:
Acronis easy migrate or true image works fine, but true image requires the
backup be stored somewhere and then installed on the new drive. The only
problem I had (after swapping eide -> sata) was when I attempted to do a
"repair" much later, the original XP OEM cd was not sp2 or even sp1a, it was
an original "sp0" and could not handle the sata when booting and I had to go
find a floppy that had the driver.
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Best way to avoid that is to make a 'slipstreamed' XP SP2 CD before
you move to the new drive. A google search will find many detailed
"how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
search term.
HTH
 
Best way to avoid that is to make a 'slipstreamed' XP SP2 CD before
you move to the new drive. A google search will find many detailed
"how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
search term.
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Or do a search for 'AutoStreamer', it's a program that does the
slipstreaming *automatically*.

Cheers,

Guy

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with democracy, spend five minutes with
the average voter." - Winston Churchill
 
Dr Teeth said:
Or do a search for 'AutoStreamer', it's a program that does the
slipstreaming *automatically*.
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Thanks for that, Guy - much less to type next time. :)
 
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