Ghosting Vista from IDE to SATA

[otheracco]

This is as much a software problem as hardware, but it's a little of both, so I'm posting it here as well.

I've doing a direct, bit by bit copy (with linux' 'dd' command from the IDE drive to the SATA drive, but it doesn't boot. I then ran a CHKDSK /F afterwards to fix any errors.

I'm getting to the boat loader, but I get an winload.exe error. winload.exe is vista's equivalent to XPs ntldr.

I know windows doesn't like being copied from one type of media to another (ie HDD to USB or vice versa).

How can I make this work or what utilities can I run on the SATA drive installation to make it work?

 

[boulder38]

when ive needed to do this ive used a cloning program such as acronis true image, which takes an image of the harddrive and puts it to the new one!

depending how your copying (i.e. drag and drop) that wont work because it doesnt copy the boot sectors and so on.

i dont know how linux works so dont how its copying!

hope this helps

 

[otheracco]

I'm not sure if you understand my dilemma.

Let me elaborate.

My question is will Vista boot off of a different type of harddrive (ie IDE image to a SATA disc) with some kind of modification.

p.s. Linux's 'dd' command is the same thing as true image, only more granular and difficult to use (as most granular things are).

 

[wolluf]

Not sure if IDE vista will boot from sata drive (because I don't know if vista install would include sata drivers when installing to ide - if it does, then should be ok) - but it should do after a repair - assuming you have install disk (boot from install disk - it should detect the vista installation & there should be repair option.

 

[PRPhx]

It sounds like your missing a program or the hd is not set up to be bootable.

 

[boulder38]

If its an image then it should work!

Ive done it a few times from an old hard drive to a new SATA drive.

It should have the drivers for the SATA side of it, assuming when vista was installed on the IDE drive all the drivers were installed from the motherboard disk.

the only thing it may pop up with is the new hard drive which is generic drivers within windows!

If its not booting and you have a VISTA disk boot from the disk and the run the repair utility within the VISTA setup, that has solved a few parts for me!

Just a thought, When the SATA hard drive is put back in after image being loaded across, is the SATA drive in on its own?? or with the other drive??
Only reason im asking is a thought of if the drive is being recognised as a different drive letter (C: D but the file has changed so its trying to go to a different drive which is not necssarily there.

Luke