Help! What did my new SATA drive do to XP?

[johnf]

I just bought a Maxtor 6Y080M0 S-ata drive, temporarily replaced my second
(data only) HD with it, partitioned it & imaged across both my OS & data
partitions from my first HD.
Checked in Explorer and everything looked fine on the new drive, so I made
it the 1st. boot device.
On startup, it took 10 minutes to get to the point where it wouldn't
recognise the new drive (that's a problem to be resolved later).

Now, on putting my original 2 drives back, it still takes abt 10 minutes to
boot up - the boot sequence goes through all the screens and processes it's
supposed to, but in slo-mo, once XP loads, it's back to full speed, Ai
Booster says it's running at 2.806GB.
If I go into BIOS, it takes abt. 10 seconds to react after arrowing to a new
field, so even that's affected.

That's all I did, partition & drive-copy across - no software changes, does
anyone have a clue what may have changed?
BTW, sys restore has no impact.

P4 / 2.8, Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Mobo, 512 RAM.

 

[Rob]

I just bought a Maxtor 6Y080M0 S-ata drive, temporarily replaced my second
(data only) HD with it, partitioned it & imaged across both my OS & data
partitions from my first HD.
Checked in Explorer and everything looked fine on the new drive, so I made
it the 1st. boot device.
On startup, it took 10 minutes to get to the point where it wouldn't
recognise the new drive (that's a problem to be resolved later).

Now, on putting my original 2 drives back, it still takes abt 10 minutes
to
boot up - the boot sequence goes through all the screens and processes
it's
supposed to, but in slo-mo, once XP loads, it's back to full speed, Ai
Booster says it's running at 2.806GB.
If I go into BIOS, it takes abt. 10 seconds to react after arrowing to a
new
field, so even that's affected.

That's all I did, partition & drive-copy across - no software changes,
does
anyone have a clue what may have changed?
BTW, sys restore has no impact.

P4 / 2.8, Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Mobo, 512 RAM.

XP does not like to be moved. Have you tried to do a Repair Install? You'll
have to download all the updates again but that might get you running good
again. IMO fixing xp is just adding problems. Like fixing a flat tire by
putting a patch on top of a previous patch. Best to reinstall xp if you can.

 

[johnf]

XP does not like to be moved. Have you tried to do a Repair Install?
You'll have to download all the updates again but that might get you
running good again. IMO fixing xp is just adding problems. Like fixing
a flat tire by putting a patch on top of a previous patch. Best to
reinstall xp if you can.

Hi, Rob, thanks, I thought about that but it doesn't add up.
I've imaged XP a few times as I upgraded my drives, but only IDE to IDE, not
SATA.
But that doesn't explain how I've inherited this problem which is still
there even after removing the new drive & reinstating the original
(unchanged) XP drive as it was originally.
It's not as though it's a problem caused by a faulty copy to the SATA.

 

[Guest]

johnf,

I'd check the bios and ensure the proper settings are set and that it is the
latest bios.

I have an Albatron 865 pro ver 2 mobo and I recently found out that it won't
overclock if SATA drives are connected to the mobo (go figure)...Albatron is
working on that.

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[johnf]

Thanks 'NS', I'll double-check that next.

 

[johnf]

Thanks, just what I needed to know, that explains why it wouldn't boot from
the SATA.
Repair Install is no problem, I've done that before - now to make sure I
have the right drivers for the floppy.
Would you know whether that is the MaxBlast 3.6 software (which I've already
downloaded & transferred to floppy?)

Now I only have to resolve the slow boot problem

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johnf

OK Johnf

You have severral key problems.

No. 1 - It's fine to install a new device [including HDD] and Windows
wioll recognise it and install drivers etc. Just as you did and have
found that the SATA HDD worked fine.

No. 2 - XP is very fussy regarding moving System image to a new HDD and
then attempting to boot off it. Now many of us have moved systems
across to new drives and found that the disk would boot. However, a
SATA drive is so different that Windows will not boot.

You will need to do a repair installation.

Get the XP CD and also make up a floppy with the RAID drivers for the
SATA disk. Boot off the XP CD and when prompted to type in F6 to
install SCSI or RAID drives, make sure you press the F6 key. Load in
the Flkopp and then it will proceed. At the first installation window,
choose install. AT the second installation window choose REPAIR.

johnf,

I'd check the bios and ensure the proper settings are set and that it
is the latest bios.

I have an Albatron 865 pro ver 2 mobo and I recently found out that it
won't overclock if SATA drives are connected to the mobo (go
figure)...Albatron is working on that.

Nospam