p4p800 copy os xp to sata

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With Drive Image 7 I copied XP from my old hard drive to my new SATA drive.
P4P800 mainboard.
Copied MBR as well. The SATA drive actually works and boots up, but only if
my other hard drives are not attached -- all secondary hard drives without
operating systems. If I attach any other drive, I receive ntldr missing
message or the system just reboots continously. Have tried copying ntldr
files to new disk but no change.
Am I wrong in thinking that I can use the SATA disk as boot up disk (in a
non raid mode) or do I need to copy it in some other way? Thanks
 
robert said:
With Drive Image 7 I copied XP from my old hard drive to my new SATA drive.
P4P800 mainboard.
Copied MBR as well. The SATA drive actually works and boots up, but only if
my other hard drives are not attached -- all secondary hard drives without
operating systems. If I attach any other drive, I receive ntldr missing
message or the system just reboots continously. Have tried copying ntldr
files to new disk but no change.
Am I wrong in thinking that I can use the SATA disk as boot up disk (in a
non raid mode) or do I need to copy it in some other way? Thanks
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If you SATA drive boots as a single drive then it
already has what it needs installed.
I believe you have to go into the BIOS in the boot
menu under hard drives and set the drive you want
to boot as the first in the list. That's the way it is
with my P4C800 anyway. Have to do this anytime
I add or remove a hard drive.

Jim Manning
 
Thanks but the problem is more difficult to understand. However, I have
partially solved it. If I change the channels on the SATA hard drives (I
didn't realize they worked in sequence) I can now use "see" both SATA hard
drives. However, if I attach a ATA 133 hard drive, the system just tries to
boot continously, even if the the ATA 133 is a slave and shouldn't create
problems. This ATA 133 drive is for some reason "active" according to XP --
which means, I think, that is has a MBR. There is absolutely no operating
system on it. I have tried changing from primary to logical with partition
magic but at the end I get an error. Of course I can be barking up the
wrong tree. To sum up, my system boots up from the SATA hard drives and sees
the burner, dvd player on the ide channels, but if I connect a hard drive to
the ide channels, the system doesn't boot.
 
Thanks but the problem is more difficult to understand. However, I have
partially solved it. If I change the channels on the SATA hard drives (I
didn't realize they worked in sequence) I can now use "see" both SATA hard
drives. However, if I attach a ATA 133 hard drive, the system just tries to
boot continously, even if the the ATA 133 is a slave and shouldn't create
problems. This ATA 133 drive is for some reason "active" according to XP --
which means, I think, that is has a MBR. There is absolutely no operating
system on it. I have tried changing from primary to logical with partition
magic but at the end I get an error. Of course I can be barking up the
wrong tree. To sum up, my system boots up from the SATA hard drives and sees
the burner, dvd player on the ide channels, but if I connect a hard drive to
the ide channels, the system doesn't boot.
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You have two things going on here. If you copy a partition to another
drive using any partition copy program all the attributes are copied as
well including the flag that designates the partition as active. This
is problem one. There can be only one active partition on any computer.
You have two. The other thing that needs to change is the boot
sequence. You do that in the bios. If you set up the SATA drive as the
first drive in the boot sequence and then have it set in the operating
system as the active partition you will boot only from the SATA drive.
If you don't get the sequencing right all bets are off. Meaning if you
didn't change the bios configuration the machine tries to boot whatever
was first in the boot sequence. In your case it was the IDE drive made
worse by the fact that it has an active partition on it.
 
I agree with Manning, same thing with my p4p800dlx. I used DI 2002 to
copy the C partition over from pata to sata. At present I have a 80 g
pata on primary IDE, an 80 g pata on the primary via controller and 1-
160g sata. Computer boots off sata.

Have you deleted the C partition info off the IDE drive. Delete it
but keep the partition size . That way if your sata crashes you can
simple copy your drive image backup to the pata drive, It works with
XP pro. resulting in little if no lost time.

I have done other tests and find that the pata drives are faster than
the sata drives in transfering data ie my ide drives (WD, 8 meg cache)
transfer at 44 mg/s while sata drives (WD, 8mg cache) transfer at
35mg/s. I will be booting off the pata drives in the near futur .

Locust
 
What version bios are you running?

Locust

Thanks but the problem is more difficult to understand. However, I have
partially solved it. If I change the channels on the SATA hard drives (I
didn't realize they worked in sequence) I can now use "see" both SATA hard
drives. However, if I attach a ATA 133 hard drive, the system just tries to
boot continously, even if the the ATA 133 is a slave and shouldn't create
problems. This ATA 133 drive is for some reason "active" according to XP --
which means, I think, that is has a MBR. There is absolutely no operating
system on it. I have tried changing from primary to logical with partition
magic but at the end I get an error. Of course I can be barking up the
wrong tree. To sum up, my system boots up from the SATA hard drives and sees
the burner, dvd player on the ide channels, but if I connect a hard drive to
the ide channels, the system doesn't boot.
Click to expand...
 
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