SATA Drives

[TaPsUmBoNg]

Hi there , I recently purchased 2 200 gig seagate baracuda sata drives, to go along with the maxtor 12o gig sata I already have.. What im wanting to do is to copy the xp install I have already on my 80 gig IDE drive to the 120 gig maxtor sata.. and then get rid of the IDE drive, being able to boot from the maxtor drive, WITH it being the new C:\... can anyone help me with this please... would be really appreciated !!!!!!

SYSTEM:
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS SP2
AMD Athlon XP-A, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Name-----Soyo KT600 DRAGON Ultra Platinum(5 PCI,1 AGP,3 DIMM,Audio,Gigabit LAN,IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset--VIA VT8377 Apollo KT600
System Memory--------1024 MB (DDR SDRAM)
RADEON 9800 XT(R360)
ViewSonic P95f+-2
Creative EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor
Maxtor 6Y080L0 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive-----------Maxtor 6 Y120M0 SCSI Disk Device (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150)
Disk Drive-----------ST320082 2AS SCSI Disk Device (200 GB, 7200 RPM, Serial-ATA/150)
Optical Drive--------Generic STEALTH DVD SCSI CdRom Device (Virtual DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive--------HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B
Optical Drive--------WSM-52Z

 

[wolluf]

I presume the current installation has SATA drivers installed (as you've already a SATA drive). So, you may get away with just cloning the IDE drive to the SATA (Seagate should have a utility on their website - if one didn't come with drives - to allow you to do this - or you could use something like Norton Ghost otherwise if you have).

Once cloned (if you have problems achieving that, please post back), remove the IDE drive, set the bios to boot from SATA (have to use the SCSI setting on many boards), and see if it will boot (it may not, as expecting to boot from an IDE drive). If it doesn't boot, run a repair reinstall -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

(you'll need the SATA drivers on a floppy - and at beginning of process when it prompts press F6 if you need to supply SCSI or alternative drivers - you press F6. Later you'll be asked to load the drivers from the floppy.

You'll need to reapply latest service pack (unless using a SP2 install disk - see

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

if you want to create one) and visit windows update.

 

[TaPsUmBoNg]

Thanks, I will try your suggestions and report back...

 

[TaPsUmBoNg]

Thanks a bunch , got it cased , u were very helpfull