Upgrade tp SATA from IDE on P4P800SE

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Oliver Costich

I have bought a Hitachi SATA drive and want to replaced my WD IDE. Do
I need drivers for the SATA drive or will the BIOS see it correctly?

Any recomendations for cloning software that can see SATA?
 
Allright .... obviously; assuming you don't plan to unplug the IDE and plug
the SATA on the same connector.

I don't understand why you will remove the old IDE - if works yet - because
you can keep it as auxiliary storage HD.

I understand the new SATA would perform better and so, it would be
convenient to reinstall the OS on it to take advantage of this speed.
You can define on BIOS the boot sequence to be the SATA HD on there and
remove the IDE HD from the sequence.
In case IDE HD bothers you withing the installation, just unplug the power
from the HD and reconnet again when the new HD is working.
The OS won't recognize the new SATA unless is partitioned and formated. I
recommend to use any partitioning tool like Partition Magic to work the SATA
HD from the floppy before to deal with the OS.

About the drivers, you can check before any change, that you have the
drivers working on SYSTEM/Device administrator/SCSI and RAID controllers.
The SATA controller you have, should appear hanging within these devices.
 
Allright .... obviously; assuming you don't plan to unplug the IDE and plug
the SATA on the same connector.

I don't understand why you will remove the old IDE - if works yet - because
you can keep it as auxiliary storage HD.
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Because it's 80GBand the new one is 250GB and I have another system
that needs a hard drive. (It's for my kids.)
I understand the new SATA would perform better and so, it would be
convenient to reinstall the OS on it to take advantage of this speed.
You can define on BIOS the boot sequence to be the SATA HD on there and
remove the IDE HD from the sequence.
Click to expand...
In case IDE HD bothers you withing the installation, just unplug the power
from the HD and reconnet again when the new HD is working.
The OS won't recognize the new SATA unless is partitioned and formated. I
recommend to use any partitioning tool like Partition Magic to work the SATA
HD from the floppy before to deal with the OS.
Click to expand...

What about cloning? Any suggestions?
 
Oliver Costich said:
It's XP Pro so if any OS will, that shpuld. Any suggestions about
cloning?
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XP, needs to be SP1 or latter to handle drives this size. If the install
CD, does not have SP1 on it, the service pack needs to be 'slipstreamed'
into the disk, for it to work for an install. It was astonishing that an
OS published when XP was, didn't at least have this in place, but that is
Microsoft for you...

Best Wishes
 
XP, needs to be SP1 or latter to handle drives this size. If the install
CD, does not have SP1 on it, the service pack needs to be 'slipstreamed'
into the disk, for it to work for an install. It was astonishing that an
OS published when XP was, didn't at least have this in place, but that is
Microsoft for you...
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Actually SP1 was included in XP releases for at least the last 2
years. It recognized the drive OK. The ral horror show was Norton
Ghost 9.0. What a piece of crap. Crashed relentlessly, one time even
reqiring that I use Partiton Magic rescue disks to remove all the
partitons that it had screwed up. I made about 5 attempts to use Ghost
and the only way out of the messes it made was to clean the new drive
and start over. After a lot of hours of this I just backed up the old
drive on an external USB drive with BackUpMyPC, install XP and the
backup software on the new drive and restored.

I highly recommed staying away from Ghost and most things from
Symantec. Let's hope they don't screw up Partition Magic.
 
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