Moving XP from ata (IDE) drive to SATA drive

[Digital Photography Now]

I've got Windows XP seeing my new SATA drive and I have Ghosted the old IDE
C: drive to the SATA drive, but I can't work out how to make the SATA drive
the boot drive for XP.

I have an Asus A8V motherboard (VIA K8T800Pro + VT8237) - the slightly
confusing thing is that the VIA support includes RAID but the SATA drive is
only seen by a Promise controller (or is that part of the VIA system?) and
it's configured there as a single drive RAID system.

The aim is to ditch the IDE installation as the boot drive for XP, replaced
by the SATA drive, without having to reinstall XP.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Ian

 

[Isis]

I've got Windows XP seeing my new SATA drive and I have Ghosted the
old IDE C: drive to the SATA drive, but I can't work out how to make
the SATA drive the boot drive for XP.

I have an Asus A8V motherboard (VIA K8T800Pro + VT8237) - the slightly
confusing thing is that the VIA support includes RAID but the SATA
drive is only seen by a Promise controller (or is that part of the VIA
system?) and it's configured there as a single drive RAID system.

The aim is to ditch the IDE installation as the boot drive for XP,
replaced by the SATA drive, without having to reinstall XP.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Ian

Ian you need to install the sata driver into XP on your old IDE harddrive
BEFORE ghosting over to the new drive - then it should all work.

Regards

 

[HenryNettles]

I've got Windows XP seeing my new SATA drive and I have Ghosted the old IDE
C: drive to the SATA drive, but I can't work out how to make the SATA drive
the boot drive for XP.

I have an Asus A8V motherboard (VIA K8T800Pro + VT8237) - the slightly
confusing thing is that the VIA support includes RAID but the SATA drive is
only seen by a Promise controller (or is that part of the VIA system?) and
it's configured there as a single drive RAID system.

The aim is to ditch the IDE installation as the boot drive for XP, replaced
by the SATA drive, without having to reinstall XP.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Ian

The answer is going to be in your CMOS setup. There should be a way to
setup the boot order within that CMOS setup.

If you can't find it (the BIOS in your computer may not allow for this),
then try temporarily disconnecting the old hard drive. It may surprise you
and just work.

 

[Digital Photography Now]

Thanks Isis - I'm running Windows XP off the original IDE drive and
obviously used this to see the SATA drive and format it and then Ghost
itself to the SATA drive. So my logic is this - if I can Ghost to the SATA
drive from the original, surely all necessary SATA drivers are already
installed. Or have I missed something out?

Ian

 

[Digital Photography Now]

Hi Henry - I tried that

But no luck. Both VIA RAID and Promise RAID show up in the boot up sequence
looking for drives, but only Promise sees the SATA drive. The main BIOS does
see a device that has a strange ID, which I'm guessing is the SATA drive,
but placing it as the first drive in the boot order after disconnecting the
IDE drive didn't work.

Ian

 

[Rod Speed]

Thanks Isis - I'm running Windows XP off the original IDE drive and obviously
used this to see the SATA drive and format it and then Ghost itself to the
SATA drive. So my logic is this - if I can Ghost to the SATA drive from the
original, surely all necessary SATA drivers are already installed. Or have I
missed something out?

Yes, the XP boot sequence is quite complex so it isnt necessarily
as easy as just reselecting the boot drive in the bios to boot off
the SATA drive once its been clones. Particularly if you allowed
the first boot off the SATA drive to see the original drive, XP can
get seriously confused. You dont give enough detail on how you
cloned or which version of ghost you used to clone to be clear
if this last is your problem or not. You did say elsewhere that
you did move the drive that appeared to be the sata drive to
the head of the list of drives to boot from, and that boot didnt
work. That may be because of that problem with allowing the
first boot of the sata drive to be able to see the original boot drive.

 

[Isis]

Hi Henry - I tried that

But no luck. Both VIA RAID and Promise RAID show up in the boot up
sequence looking for drives, but only Promise sees the SATA drive. The
main BIOS does see a device that has a strange ID, which I'm guessing
is the SATA drive, but placing it as the first drive in the boot order
after disconnecting the IDE drive didn't work.

Ian

It is not actually about the bios boot order - XP needs the drivers for
the disk loaded prior to booting into the XP boot loader - I can only say
that as a technician I have had this problem many times when swapping a
SATA drive for an IDE one. Just keep the original IDE in until you have
loaded the SATA drivers then ghost disk to disk (I always do this in DOS
- I think all versions of Ghost still come with a DOS executable) - you
may need to set the SATA boot record as 'active' to boot from it after
ghosting (fdisk. The method works and yes, I did learn it the hard way
when I experienced the same problem you are. Once the SATA drive is
bootable set it as the one of the boot options in te bios but it is NOT
the bios that is causing your present problem.

Regards

 

[Digital Photography Now]

Hi Rod - I used Norton Ghost 9.0. I think I did disconnect the old IDE drive
before trying to boot the SATA drive, but I see what you are getting at and
might have another go after re-Ghosting the SATA drive (as the image will
have changed by now now anyway).

I'll let you know how I get on

Ian

 

[Digital Photography Now]

OK - yes, that makes sense. I'll see if I can use DOS mode Ghost 2003 which
comes Ghost 9.0 to do a DOS Ghost transfer, but I'll try Ghost 9.0 first as
it's easier

Ian

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

OK - yes, that makes sense.

No, it doesn't.

I'll see if I can use DOS mode Ghost 2003 which
comes Ghost 9.0 to do a DOS Ghost transfer, but I'll try Ghost 9.0 first as
it's easier

And how will this make a difference to what?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

It is not actually about the bios boot order - XP needs the drivers
for the disk loaded prior to booting into the XP boot loader -

I can only say that as a technician

You sure, or is that a secret wish.

I have had this problem many times when swapping a SATA drive
for an IDE one. Just keep the original IDE in until you have
loaded the SATA drivers then ghost disk to disk

What exactly did you not get in:

" I've got Windows XP *seeing my new SATA* drive and
I have Ghosted the old IDE C: drive to the SATA drive"

"I'm running Windows XP off the original IDE drive and
*obviously used this to see the SATA drive* and format it"

Do you need a specific password to allow this to drain into your skull?

(I always do this in DOS
- I think all versions of Ghost still come with a DOS executable) - you
may need to set the SATA boot record as 'active' to boot from it after
ghosting (fdisk. The method works and yes, I did learn it the hard way
when I experienced the same problem you are.

Once the SATA drive is bootable set it as the one of the boot options
in te bios but it is NOT the bios that is causing your present problem.

You don't know, OP never said what exactly is the problem that lead him
to his question.