Ghost image - IDE Hard drive to SATA hard drive

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I have an image of Windows 2000 Pro SP4 that is working perfectly on an
IDE hard drive. As soon as I transfer it over to a SATA hard drive, I
get a blue screen upon windows boot up. So I booted to the IDE hard
drive again and did some investigating.

What I noticed is that, although in device manager it says that I have
"Serial
ATA" storage controller drivers installed, windows disk manager shows
that my SATA hard drives only show up to a max of 128 GB... in
actuality, they are 500+ GB. So I'm thinking I don't have the right
SATA drivers...

Please help!
 
You need to run a repair installation of win using the F6 option to install
sata drivers from floppy.
You also need to ensure that the bios supports this hd size
 
I have an image of Windows 2000 Pro SP4 that is working perfectly on an
IDE hard drive. As soon as I transfer it over to a SATA hard drive, I
get a blue screen upon windows boot up. So I booted to the IDE hard
drive again and did some investigating.

What I noticed is that, although in device manager it says that I have
"Serial
ATA" storage controller drivers installed, windows disk manager shows
that my SATA hard drives only show up to a max of 128 GB... in
actuality, they are 500+ GB. So I'm thinking I don't have the right
SATA drivers...

Please help!
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I'm assuming the SATA interface is part of the motherboard chipset, so
you have to enable 48-bit LBA access by sticking EnableBigLba in the
registry as described in 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in
Windows 2000 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/en-us>.
 
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