Variation of the "Swap Harddrive" question...

[markharris2000]

I have a variation of the worn out question about how to swap hard
drives on WinXP. I recently had a total failure of the Boot drive on
my Windows XP machine. Yes, the head actuator went south. (I even tried
swapping IDE logic card on the drive itself as a last resort). Well
anyway, I swapped a new PATA hard drive in the machine and rebuilt a
fresh Windows XP box. Everything is fine.

Now while I was inside the machine, it reminded me that this ECS
RC410L/800M motherboard actually had RAID SATA channels on it. In BIOS,
they apear as IDE channels 3 and 4, and each channel has 2 SATA
connections. The BIOS allows these SATA controllers to be set in
hardware to RAID.

Question is this: If I would like to get from where I am now with 2
PATA drives connected to the first two PATA IDE channels, (first
channel is boot disk, second is storage disk), to a new configuration
which uses the SATA channel as a Bootable RAID set (200 SATA drives
connected and BIOS set to RAID), what is a good MIGRATION strategy to
save me all the time involved in loading the O/S again?

(I have latest Copy Commander bootable CDROM if that helps).

Suggestions?

 

[DL]

Depends entirely whether your sata controler can build the array on the fly,
ie using a hd that is allready set up with an o/s

 

[philo]

Question is this: If I would like to get from where I am now with 2
PATA drives connected to the first two PATA IDE channels, (first
channel is boot disk, second is storage disk), to a new configuration
which uses the SATA channel as a Bootable RAID set (200 SATA drives
connected and BIOS set to RAID), what is a good MIGRATION strategy to
save me all the time involved in loading the O/S again?

(I have latest Copy Commander bootable CDROM if that helps).

When using RAID... the fastest and most reliable method is a reinstall!

If you were real lucky, a clone and a repair install might work...
but a fresh install would actually save you time...
and it's pretty well guaranteed to work

 

[BR549]

Depends entirely whether your sata controler can build the array on the
fly,
ie using a hd that is allready set up with an o/s

I can't ever imagine how that would be ever be possible. How would the sata
controller see the ide disk drive?

 

[DL]

Simple really, a repair install

I can't ever imagine how that would be ever be possible. How would the sata
controller see the ide disk drive?

 

[Guest]

Thier is no way to try a short cut with a new RAID configuration,simply
install
as its needed to be done...From scratch...

 

[BR549]

Simple really, a repair install

How would doing a repair install of XP move everything from and ide drive to
a sata drive?

 

[DL]

Clone/repair

How would doing a repair install of XP move everything from and ide drive to
a sata drive?

 

[BR549]

Clone/repair

Never heard of it as a function of XP, how is that going to copy all his
data and programs?