Just want: XP (on IDE C) ghosted to SATA & become new drive C!

[Pat Coghlan]

I haven't seen a recipe on how to do this successfully.

I've tried Ghosting my XP IDE C-Drive to my SATA (F-Drive, marked as
having OS after copying). If I reboot, the F-Drive appears to be my
system disk, with the C-Drive being the swap drive (?).

If I disconnect the IDE drive, the SATA is still the F-Drive and the
system appears to hang.

Is there an idiot-proof way of doing this? My SATA drive is the 5th
physical drive since there are 2 IDE channels. Does WinXP remember that
it was installed on the 1st "physical" drive...and refuse to work?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| I haven't seen a recipe on how to do this successfully.
|
| I've tried Ghosting my XP IDE C-Drive to my SATA (F-Drive, marked as
| having OS after copying). If I reboot, the F-Drive appears to be my
| system disk, with the C-Drive being the swap drive (?).
|
| If I disconnect the IDE drive, the SATA is still the F-Drive and the
| system appears to hang.
|
| Is there an idiot-proof way of doing this? My SATA drive is the 5th
| physical drive since there are 2 IDE channels. Does WinXP remember that
| it was installed on the 1st "physical" drive...and refuse to work?

 

[Pat Coghlan]

You cant ghost IDE to SATA or vis-versa,only IDE to IDE on same cable.Youre
best bet is clean xp installation,and run file transfer wizard on youre IDE
hd first,set the wizard as old computer.

That seems to be the consensus, but what's the/ real /reason this can't
be done? Is it because WiinXP remembers that it was originally
installed on the first physical drive (later cloned to SATA), and that
the SATA can't be made to appear as the first physical drive?

IDE-to-IDE works because:

* WinXP originally installed on 1st physical drive (master on IDE
channel 0, i.e. C
* WinXP cloned to nth physical drive (e.g. slave on IDE channel 0,
i.e. D: or some higher drive letter)
* Removing original drive and jumpering new drive as master on IDE
channel 0 makes WinXP think that it's on the original physical
drive (i.e. the drive where fresh install was performed)

My SATA drive shows up as an IDE drive on a higher channel or controller
number - at least something other than the master on IDE channel 0, so I
can't use the same re-jumpering trick to make it look like the first
physical drive. Before I give up entirely and just re-install from CD,
is there not another way...say be rebooting with only the SATA drive
connected (no CD-ROM etc.) so that Windows sees it as the first physical
drive?

-Pat