Transferring data from IDE to SATA

[Dave]

I installed a pair of SATA drives as a RAID 1 set.

I want to copy the partitions of my existing IDE drive over, but the
SATA drives are not visible to Win XP or Partition Magic- the system
acts as if nothing had been added.

Are IDE & SATA incompatible, or is there a way of achieving this?

I really do not want to start over.
Dave

 

[DL]

Are they visible in Disk Management?
It may be a question of installing sata/raid drivers
You would have to read your mobo book/visit web site for info

 

[Bob Harris]

SATA drives, RAID drives, and SCSI drives are not automatically supported by
XP. Thus, XP, nor any XP program can see them.

The user need to install drivers to make them work. Such drivers come from
the maker of the disk controller, usually the motherboard maker, or the
maker of a PCI adapter card, if you are using one of those. They dodNOT
come from the maker of the hard drives.

If you want to copy all partitions, except possibly the on with the
operating system, then it should be sufficient to install the drivers from
within XP, at the desktop level. If you want to transfer the operating
system, then remove the old IDE drive, and/or boot from the SATA RAIDed
drives, it may be necessary to follow the partition cloning by a repair
installation of XP. That is where, early during the process, you press F6
to install third-party drivers. Such drivers must be on a floppy (not on a
CD) for the XP installer to see them. (Do not ask me why Microsoft did not
allow for drivers on a CD.)

Links to repairing XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341



http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm



http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=23979,00.asp


As for "copying partitions": If they contain only data, a simple windows
explorer copy&past will work. Personally I prefer XCOPY run with a command
prompt, with the /V option to verify the copy. Also use /S /R /H with
XCOPY. But, for partitions that contain programs and/or the operating
system copy&paste will fail. Instead, use a "disk cloning" program such as
Acronis True Image or Norton GHOST. Note that "partition cloning" usually
does NOT copy the master boot record, so the SATA drive set will not be
bootable until you manually fix that. Acronis does offer a free tool to do
that, or you could play with FDISK (maybe) or the XP recovery console
(FIXMBR command). Be aware that the recovery console will also ask for the
SATA drivers, the same as a repair install of XP. Disk cloning usually does
copy the MBR; certainly True Image does. Disk cloning programs usually
offer to expand the partition to fill the new disk, or leave them the same
size, and therby have unused space, which can be partitioned later.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I installed a pair of SATA drives as a RAID 1 set.

I want to copy the partitions of my existing IDE drive over, but the
SATA drives are not visible to Win XP or Partition Magic- the system
acts as if nothing had been added.

Are IDE & SATA incompatible, or is there a way of achieving this?

I really do not want to start over.
Dave

You will need to install the driver for the RAID controller. If you want to
use the RAID set as your boot drive there will be a couple more steps as
follows:

1) Install RAID controller driver.
2) Confirm in the Windows disk management that the new drive is recognised.
3) Do not partition the drive.
4) Install a drive imaging program that will create a boot floppy or CD.
Acronis True Image will work.
5) Boot from the floppy or CD.
6) Clone the old drive/partitions to the RAID set. You can adjust the
partition size as you like at this point.
7) Remove the original drive.
8) Set the BIOS to boot from the RAID set.
9) Boot computer.
10) If the computer boots then you can shut down and reinstall the original
drive if you want.
11) If it doesn't boot let us know you need more help.

Kerry