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Installing SATA Drive as boot drive?
We have a 40gb Samsung drive with my dads windows xp stuff on and his trying
to transfer it to his new sata 160gb drive, we have the install disk and have tried copying stuff over twice but the machine wont seem to boot off the sata as a primary, just wondering any advice we may do and what would be the normal procedure to copy from the ide drive to the sata drive maybe via Norton ghost maybe!? many thanks for any help! |
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MagicUK enlightened us all with the following:
We have a 40gb Samsung drive with my dads windows xp stuff on and his trying to transfer it to his new sata 160gb drive, we have the install disk and have tried copying stuff over twice but the machine wont seem to boot off the sata as a primary, just wondering any advice we may do and what would be the normal procedure to copy from the ide drive to the sata drive maybe via Norton ghost maybe!? many thanks for any help! Look in the BIOS and set the SATA to RAID function. Then set your boot order accordingly. |
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"MagicUK" wrote in message
... We have a 40gb Samsung drive with my dads windows xp stuff on and his trying to transfer it to his new sata 160gb drive, we have the install disk and have tried copying stuff over twice but the machine wont seem to boot off the sata as a primary, just wondering any advice we may do and what would be the normal procedure to copy from the ide drive to the sata drive maybe via Norton ghost maybe!? many thanks for any help! "trying to transfer it to his new sata 160gb drive" So what happens when you try to do the transfer? "we have the install disk" What install disk is this? "the machine wont seem to boot off the sata as a primary" Have you set the BIOS options to let it boot that way? There are several different ways to transfer the data and files from an old drive to a new one. I use Apricorn's EZ Gig II but there are some freeware ones around. Have never tried NG. Anyway, what happens when you try to boot from the new drive? Is it recognized in the BIOS's startup screen and then ignored later. What happened when you tried to do the copy from old to new? -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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Check in the bios to make sure the boot drive is set for the correct SATA drive
and on the correct channel, also when trying to load windows you will need to have the SATA drivers for Windows. Download them from either your motherboard manufacture (next time post system specs, makes life eaiser) or you can download them from the chipset maker. Then you'll need them on a floppy for install. Once inside the windows install you'll be prompted to hit F6 for loading scsi drivers, it'll read the drivers off the Floppy and you should be good to go. From there load your disk with the info on as a slave drive and transfer your files. Good luck ~A |
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