Ghost Operating System to SATA drive

[ggarret1]

I have been running Windows XP on an IDE drive. I just got a Serial AT
drive and I want to transfer my operating system to the SATA drive.

I hooked up the SATA drive and particioned it with Windows Dis
manager. Then I used Norton Ghost to ghost my c drive to the new driv
- I checked to "copy MBR" box. I then restarted and set the boot orde
in the BIOS to boot from the new drive. I also disconnected my ID
drives.

I got a boot error (It couldn't be that simple could it?)

I have about a gagzillion programs installed and it would take me
couple of weeks to reinstall them all. If I could ghost the operatin
system it would be a big time saver.

I thought about doing a repair with the Windows installation disk. I
you chose "repair an existing installation" does it give you that F
option to install a third party SATA or RAID driver?

Anyway, I'm not sure that is the way to go.

Any suggestions would be appriciated.

Thanks

Gart

 

[Natéag]

I have done it with Norton Ghost.
Since the drive number (drive 0, or 01, etc; will change
you will have either to edit the boot.ini file.

Or you can just repair the installation, booting from
your CD. You press F6 at the beginning of the process.

It should work. You won't have to reinstall your programs.

 

[beebe]

Hi Garth, this may be the same problem I struggled with using Ghost
with SCSI boot drives. Did you begin the clone process from a boot
floppy/CD or from the installed program in Windows? if it's the latter,
then what Ghost has done is create a temporary boot record that doesn't
recognize your SATA bus, and you need to delete it with FDISK; FDISK is
part of a DOS bootable disk.

 

[Bob Harris]

You MUST do a repair installation, AND use F6 to load the SATA drivers.

Further, these drivers must be on a floppy, not on a CD. If yo do not have
a floppy, get one, since the alternative of trying to slip-stream the
drivers into the XP CD as not for most home users.

Note that the SATA drivers come from the motherboard maker, not the hard
drive maker. Or, if using a PCI-to-SATA board, from whomever made that
board.

 

[GF]

If required (depends on motherboard)t he necessary files will be found
on the motherboard installation CD.
You just copy them to a diskette.