Replacing PATA with SATA

[Jack Gillis]

Very soon, I expect to assemble a new machine. All of my current ones use
PATA drives and I plan to use 2 SATA drives in my new machine. Is there any
particular trick to using SATA under WinXP SP3?

And,

Does anyone know if Partition Magic 8.0 will allow me to resized and move
partitions on a SATA drive? How about Acronis' Disk Director 10?

Thank you very much.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Very soon, I expect to assemble a new machine. All of my current
ones use PATA drives and I plan to use 2 SATA drives in my new
machine. Is there any particular trick to using SATA under WinXP
SP3?
And,

Does anyone know if Partition Magic 8.0 will allow me to resized
and move partitions on a SATA drive? How about Acronis' Disk
Director 10?
Thank you very much.

Not really - although you *might* need to use the F6 method of installation
(to install the drivers at Windows installation time) or integrate them into
your installation media. Truthfully though, most of the more modern SATA
controllers do not require that (unless you are doing RAID, then the chances
increase a little.)

Yes and yes. They don't care about the type of drive too much. It's all a
drivers game and if whatever you are using can see it - so can they.

 

[Jack Gillis]

Not really - although you *might* need to use the F6 method of
installation (to install the drivers at Windows installation time) or
integrate them into your installation media. Truthfully though, most of
the more modern SATA controllers do not require that (unless you are doing
RAID, then the chances increase a little.)

Yes and yes. They don't care about the type of drive too much. It's all
a drivers game and if whatever you are using can see it - so can they.

Interesting point. Thank you very much.

 

[Jack Gillis]

Not really - although you *might* need to use the F6 method of
installation (to install the drivers at Windows installation time) or
integrate them into your installation media. Truthfully though, most of
the more modern SATA controllers do not require that (unless you are doing
RAID, then the chances increase a little.)

Yes and yes. They don't care about the type of drive too much. It's all
a drivers game and if whatever you are using can see it - so can they.

I was a very happy camper in my first reply but I just thought of something.
The bootable recovery disk for Partition Magic is DOS and the one for
Acronis is Linux. I can see how Acronis might provide the required drivers
but how DOS might eludes me.

 

[smlunatick]

I was a very happy camper in my first reply but I just thought of something.
The bootable recovery disk for Partition Magic is DOS and the one for
Acronis is Linux.  I can see how Acronis might provide the required drivers
but how DOS might eludes me.

Partition Magic 8 "might" not be able to see the SATA drive ports if
you require to add a "boot" driver with the <F6> during the install.
Also, several SATA based motherboard have a BIOS option with allows
these to "emulate" (be seen) as PATA ports. Several Intel SATA ports
tend to appear "natively" in the install of XP.

 

[Jack Gillis]

I was a very happy camper in my first reply but I just thought of
something.
The bootable recovery disk for Partition Magic is DOS and the one for
Acronis is Linux. I can see how Acronis might provide the required drivers
but how DOS might eludes me.

Partition Magic 8 "might" not be able to see the SATA drive ports if
you require to add a "boot" driver with the <F6> during the install.
Also, several SATA based motherboard have a BIOS option with allows
these to "emulate" (be seen) as PATA ports. Several Intel SATA ports
tend to appear "natively" in the install of XP.

Thank you. I understand.