Upgrading to a S-ATA disk with Asus P4PE - Help?

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I'm buying a new harddisk AND upgrading to XP like this:

1) New disk is partitioned into 2 partitions
2) Both are formatted with Win98se format /s
3) Old Win98se is copied to both partitions
4) 2nd partition will then be upgraded to WinXP
(I'll make the Win98se bootsect.dos with debug
to be able to boot Win98se from the 1st part.)

Straight forward if my new drive is a P-ATA drive too.

BUT, what if I buy a S-ATA drive for my new drive?

- Do I need to install any Promise S-ATA drivers to be able
to see this disk (I can install them on the old Win98se
installation on my old disk while that is still boot disk)

- Will all partition tools see both the old P-ATA disk and
the new S-ATA disk (can't use Win98se FDISK as that can't
create two primary partitions - and I need to do that

- What when I upgrade from Win98se til XP after copying to
the new disk? How will the XP upgrade react? Will it see
the S-ATA disk at all? Can I install the Promise S-ATA
driver AFTER upgrading XP (will XP be able to use the S-ATA
disk without the driver at all), or how do I do this?

I'm not going to use the RAID support on the Promise S-ATA
controller, only one of the S-ATA connectors for my new disk.

BTW: How do I select if my P4PE should boot from the P-ATA
controller (as today) or from the S-ATA controller?

 

[Guest]

SATA hds run as any IDE drive would,no drivers will be needed nor will they
be used unless youve created a RAID set with them.XP would install the
drivers
for any controller,w/o a RAID set it'll all react like an IDE hd/controller.

 

[Postermon]

I'm buying a new harddisk AND upgrading to XP like this:

1) New disk is partitioned into 2 partitions
2) Both are formatted with Win98se format /s
3) Old Win98se is copied to both partitions
4) 2nd partition will then be upgraded to WinXP
(I'll make the Win98se bootsect.dos with debug
to be able to boot Win98se from the 1st part.)

Straight forward if my new drive is a P-ATA drive too.

Straight forward, but your procedure is not...

Easier ways to do this... check the net.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Postermon skrev:

Straight forward, but your procedure is not...

What's wrong? I have copied Win98se like this before (I left out some
stuff about changing master/slave and stuff on the way of course, need
to switch the disks a couple of times, but it works OK to first format
with /s and then boot from the old disk and copy the files over

The partitioning, and how to have WinXP on 2nd partition and Win98se
on the first I got from an article about how to make that work.

The really tricky part is the Promise S-ATA driver stuff, and how to
select whether to boot from the P-ATA (old disk) or S-ATA (new disk),
and that's what I need feedback on (need to switch boot drive, the
S-ATA (new) must be boot afterwards, but the P-ATA (old) must bee boot
until all data is copied over. How do I control this on a P4PE?

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Andrew E. skrev:

SATA hds run as any IDE drive would,no drivers will be needed nor will they
be used unless youve created a RAID set with them.XP would install the
drivers
for any controller,w/o a RAID set it'll all react like an IDE hd/controller.

It says it finds a new hardware and needs to install drivers when I
enable the S-ATA controller (it's a Promise on-board controller, but
not a part of the ICH4 chipsset, and it has optional RAID-features)

But are you saying it still should work in 98 and XP w/o drivers at
full speed (all HDs tend to work, but in some "compability mode")?

 

[MicroMark]

Your SATA drive can be setup to remap through the IDE bus, by setting
the bios accordingly. Then during POST, you'll see it as an IDE drive.
If you run the SATA drive "remapped" thru the IDE bus, it will be slower
than if it were setup as a SATA drive using the onboard chipset.

To see the SATA drive (not remapped thru IDE bus), you will have to
install the chipset driver for the onboard controller...and if it is a fresh
installation of XP, that means hitting F6 during setup when it asks about
SCSI drivers. Have the chipset drivers on a floppy. You will have to
read your BIOS setup manual to see where to set it as either an IDE or
a RAID drive, as I cannot speak to the Asus board. The above is true for
Gigabyte.

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