cloning a ide drive to a SATA

[Guest]

i understand before cloning the drive i have to load the SATA drivers into
the windows folder so when the computer is restarted the sata HDD is
recognized as the boot drive ( the IDE drive will be disconnected), my
question is.........which folder do i load them to? Thanks for all and any
comments, Mike

 

[Guest]

Mike

Just done it recently, the best way I found was to install the adapter
card (if you need one ) install the sata drive and drivers as a logical
drive. By doing this you can check you have the drive functioning before you
clone it. If you are mirroring SATA drives on a home PC the performance hit
of the mirror is pretty bad though. Alright for servers but not really
multimedia etc.

Hope this helps

 

[Wayne Roop]

It appears you are cloning the IDE with the primary partition and XP to
the SATA. What I did was enable the SATA controller, with no drive
connected, in the BIOS while still using the IDE drive. XP detected the new
device and I used the floppy provided by the motherboard manu. just for this
purpose as the location for the drivers. Once this completes successfully
you could go ahead and clone. I did this with no problem.
If you wish to test first connect the SATA while the IDE is still being
used. Assuming it's unformatted you won't get a drive letter, but Disk
Management should show it.

Regards,
Wayne R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: cloning a ide drive to a SATA

 

[Mike Flanagan]

Thanks both Rob and Wayne the info you gave has helped alot
Mike