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SATA as boot drive?
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My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? My configuration: ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard Award BIOS Athlon 2500 1 Gb Memory SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD ATI 9800 Graphics Win XP Pro SP1 Regards, Hans |
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Hans wrote:
Hi, My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD Win XP Pro SP1 Download and copy the Silicon Image SATA drivers to a floppy. http://usa.asus.com/support/download...N8X-E%20Deluxe Connect the SATA drive and disconnect the IDE drive. Set the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Boot from your Windows XP CD. In the first few seconds of setup, you will be prompted to press F6. Do so. When prompted to insert the floppy, do that. Windows can not "see" your SATA drive without this driver. When Windows XP has finished installing, enter the BIOS and set the first boot device as SCSI. Reconnect the IDE drive and copy over any files if you like. |
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On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:46:02 GMT, "S.Heenan" wrote:
Hans wrote: Hi, My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD Win XP Pro SP1 Download and copy the Silicon Image SATA drivers to a floppy. http://usa.asus.com/support/download...N8X-E%20Deluxe Connect the SATA drive and disconnect the IDE drive. Set the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Boot from your Windows XP CD. In the first few seconds of setup, you will be prompted to press F6. Do so. When prompted to insert the floppy, do that. Windows can not "see" your SATA drive without this driver. When Windows XP has finished installing, enter the BIOS and set the first boot device as SCSI. Reconnect the IDE drive and copy over any files if you like. Thanks... |
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Hans wrote:
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:46:02 GMT, "S.Heenan" wrote: Hans wrote: Hi, My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD Win XP Pro SP1 Download and copy the Silicon Image SATA drivers to a floppy. http://usa.asus.com/support/download...N8X-E%20Deluxe Connect the SATA drive and disconnect the IDE drive. Set the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Boot from your Windows XP CD. In the first few seconds of setup, you will be prompted to press F6. Do so. When prompted to insert the floppy, do that. Windows can not "see" your SATA drive without this driver. When Windows XP has finished installing, enter the BIOS and set the first boot device as SCSI. Reconnect the IDE drive and copy over any files if you like. Thanks... Any time. |
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S.Heenan wrote:
Hans wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:46:02 GMT, "S.Heenan" wrote: Hans wrote: Hi, My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD Win XP Pro SP1 Download and copy the Silicon Image SATA drivers to a floppy. http://usa.asus.com/support/download...N8X-E%20Deluxe Connect the SATA drive and disconnect the IDE drive. Set the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM. Boot from your Windows XP CD. In the first few seconds of setup, you will be prompted to press F6. Do so. When prompted to insert the floppy, do that. Windows can not "see" your SATA drive without this driver. When Windows XP has finished installing, enter the BIOS and set the first boot device as SCSI. Reconnect the IDE drive and copy over any files if you like. Thanks... Any time. Is it possible to copy the IDE boot drive contents over to the SATA drive, remove the IDE drive, then boot from the SATA drive (as when upgrading to a larger IDE drive)? Or is it necessary to do a fresh Windows XP install on the new drive? Thanks. |
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On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:21:30 -0600, Jim wrote:
Is it possible to copy the IDE boot drive contents over to the SATA drive, remove the IDE drive, then boot from the SATA drive (as when upgrading to a larger IDE drive)? Or is it necessary to do a fresh Windows XP install on the new drive? Thanks. I don't believe there are any easy methods to do this, you could probably do something like using Ghost to image one drive to the other but if you're not too familiar with the process you might want to simply rebuild. Even with Ghosting there is likely to be some OS configuration issues when going from IDE to what is essentially a SCSI device. -s- |
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I would use Ghost or Drive Image (much more convenient to use).
Then using Windows install CD launch install then choose « update » rather than new installation. "Steven L Cox" a écrit dans le message de ... On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:21:30 -0600, Jim wrote: Is it possible to copy the IDE boot drive contents over to the SATA drive, remove the IDE drive, then boot from the SATA drive (as when upgrading to a larger IDE drive)? Or is it necessary to do a fresh Windows XP install on the new drive? Thanks. I don't believe there are any easy methods to do this, you could probably do something like using Ghost to image one drive to the other but if you're not too familiar with the process you might want to simply rebuild. Even with Ghosting there is likely to be some OS configuration issues when going from IDE to what is essentially a SCSI device. -s- |
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Steven L Cox wrote:
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:21:30 -0600, Jim wrote: Is it possible to copy the IDE boot drive contents over to the SATA drive, remove the IDE drive, then boot from the SATA drive (as when upgrading to a larger IDE drive)? Or is it necessary to do a fresh Windows XP install on the new drive? Thanks. I don't believe there are any easy methods to do this, you could probably do something like using Ghost to image one drive to the other but if you're not too familiar with the process you might want to simply rebuild. Even with Ghosting there is likely to be some OS configuration issues when going from IDE to what is essentially a SCSI device. -s- Yeah I don't think it's going to work. I used Drive Image Pro and it almost booted from the SATA, getting just past the XP logon prompt before freezing. The SATA drivers are on the image because I booted from the IDE drive with the SATA drive in place and it was installed OK. Also tried booting from XP CD and re-install over the existing OS but that didn't work. I'll try a couple more BIOS versions and re-installs and post back here if I get it to work. |
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On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:22:24 +0100, Hans wrote:
Hi, My computer boots from a 30 Gb IDE drive. The secondairy drive is SATA. Is it possible to boot from the SATA drive without the IDE drive on board? If yes; can someone tell me how to do this as I can't find to set the SATA in the BIOS as Primairy drive ? My configuration: ASUS A7NX8 E DeLuxe motherboard Award BIOS Athlon 2500 1 Gb Memory SATA 120 Gb 7200rpm HD IDE 30 Gb 5200 rpm HD ATI 9800 Graphics Win XP Pro SP1 Regards, Hans You didn't mention what brand harddrive you are using but I just did the exact same process using Seatgates Disk wizard 2003. Went from a 40gig drive to a 200gig drive, the program does everything, formats, does multiple partitions if you like and copies all the files from the old drive to the new one. All you have to do is move the cables and jumpers when told to do so and set bios to boot from SCSI instead of IDE. Your harddrive mfgr. may have the same type program available for download. TDaddy |
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=|[ Jim's ]|= wrote:
Steven L Cox wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:21:30 -0600, Jim wrote: Is it possible to copy the IDE boot drive contents over to the SATA drive, remove the IDE drive, then boot from the SATA drive (as when upgrading to a larger IDE drive)? Or is it necessary to do a fresh Windows XP install on the new drive? Thanks. I don't believe there are any easy methods to do this, you could probably do something like using Ghost to image one drive to the other but if you're not too familiar with the process you might want to simply rebuild. Even with Ghosting there is likely to be some OS configuration issues when going from IDE to what is essentially a SCSI device. -s- Yeah I don't think it's going to work. I used Drive Image Pro and it almost booted from the SATA, getting just past the XP logon prompt before freezing. The SATA drivers are on the image because I booted from the IDE drive with the SATA drive in place and it was installed OK. Also tried booting from XP CD and re-install over the existing OS but that didn't work. I'll try a couple more BIOS versions and re-installs and post back here if I get it to work. Sounds like you might have to just edit boot.ini http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q102873 Inside boot.ini, lines define where various windows installation can be found like, multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="display ed in menu" Multi is for IDE, changing from ide to sata, it would change to something like, scsi0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="displayed in menu" That could do it, -- ' gathering moss, andy |
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