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Replacing IDE boot drive with SATA
I have a 200 gig IDE drive that is the boot drive on my Win XP Pro system. It has always been NTFS and is C:. I'd like to replace it with a 250 gig SATA2 drive, which is detected as drive one of my SATA drives. It is currently drive G: Is it as simple as using partitionmagic to copy my old...- Antonin
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Help Needed - Reboot Loop when adding NTFS drive
dk87 - Thanks! I have this drive connected as master on the secondary channel. My main C: drive is master on my primary channel. I also tried booting into safe mode (I didn't mention this in my original post), and it is verrrrry slow, and takes approximately 15 minutes just to load windows in...- Antonin
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Help Needed - Reboot Loop when adding NTFS drive
A colleage of mine runs XP home on their PC, and has a 40 gig C: drive that is NTFS. Probably due to extreme heat within the case, the drive has become partially corrupted. I run a very stable Win 2K Pro machine, and wanted to temporarily remove the drive from her machine, and install it in...- Antonin
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
