IDE to SATA accomplished

[Lil' Dave]

My object was to move XP w/SP2 from an ide drive to a new SATA drive. My
installation was different in that I have 3rd party boot manager and windows
Millenium Edition on another partition. ME, independent of XP, was hidden
by the boot manager when booting XP. XP partition is NTFS. The boot
manager depends on ME partition for some of its files. As I learned later,
ME will not work on a SATA drive.

I did image the ME and XP partitions as separate image files to a Firewire
hard drive prior to inserting the SATA drives, and removing the ide drives.

Learned that the partition saved, even though may be active, may not restore
that way. This bit me when the PC could not find any boot capable hard
drive after restoring XP. Restoring the image and checking to make that
partition active did the trick.

Somewhere in the painful experience, I learned that my generic OEM XP Home
installation CD has a repair option when installing windows. No, not the
recovery console. Contrary to what I've read at the general newsgroup. In
fairness, my source CD was a generic OEM XP w/SP1 autostreamed with SP2,
used the resulting CD.

2 third party software installations required reactivation upon restoration
of the XP image. TrendMicro Antispyware, and NAV 2004. So far, MS Office
2003 seems okay. XP did require a reboot to get the SATA driver going.

Still got the ide drive installation. It will boot and all operating
systems are still working. Using a PCI ide card for temporary use, drive is
tray mounted. I disable both the SATA configuration and the primary ide in
the bios when using this for boot purposes. So far, neither XP installation
has seen the other. Intend to keep the XP install on the ide drive for
about a month as a precaution if there's something amiss in XP I've
overlooked. If okay, will wipe out the XP partition and keep Millenium. I
do my banking data on that OS. Would feel safer if removable and removed
when not in use.

Oh. I manually configured the onboard SATA as remap to primary ide in the
bios, if that's important. The onboard primary ide must be enabled for this
to work. If not, the SATA drive won't be seen if configured this way. Has
to do it this way on my system. SATA takes second fiddle to onboard ide
drives if not configured that way.

Hope this helps someone intending to similar on their PC.
Dave

 

[Rock]

Somewhere in the painful experience, I learned that my generic OEM XP Home
installation CD has a repair option when installing windows. No, not the
recovery console. Contrary to what I've read at the general newsgroup.
In fairness, my source CD was a generic OEM XP w/SP1 autostreamed with
SP2, used the resulting CD.

I'm not sure what you mean here about contrary to what you've read in the
newsgroup. Yes a generic XP installation CD, whether Home or Pro, supports
a repair install. I've not seen it made as an assertion of fact that it
cannot. What it can't do is an in place upgrade.

<snip>

 

[Lil' Dave]

I'm not sure what you mean here about contrary to what you've read in the
newsgroup. Yes a generic XP installation CD, whether Home or Pro,
supports a repair install. I've not seen it made as an assertion of fact
that it cannot. What it can't do is an in place upgrade.

<snip>

Ain't gonna track the numerous assertions making that point in the past here
(no repair option with OEM generic). Primarily, some responses from MVPs
were doing this. Notably when talking about licensing etc. and differences
between retail and OEM generic.
Dave

 

[Rock]

in message

Ain't gonna track the numerous assertions making that point in the past
here (no repair option with OEM generic). Primarily, some responses from
MVPs were doing this. Notably when talking about licensing etc. and
differences between retail and OEM generic.

Well that's contrary to my recollection. I don't recollect any of the MVP's
asserting, and certainly if one did they would have been corrected, that a
generic OEM CD can't do a repair install.