Swaping out IDE HD for SATA

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unimatrixzer0

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I basically have an IDE hard drive as my primary HD with win xp on it. I want to swap it out with a SATA HD, and rather not have to format and want to just copy and paste what I have on the IDE to the SATA, but theres probably more to it right?

What am I forgetting? What do I have to modify for this to work?
 
you could connect both of the HD's at the same time and run norton ghost to clone the xp drive
 
that'll get copied over in an Norton Ghost Cloning.

Ghost literally clones the old drive to the new... your computer won't tell the difference in terms of where the files are.
 
i did the same thing to copy a 20 to a 200. Ghost will copy every single bit of data so yes it will copy the boot.ini.
 
Well want I mean is do I need to edit the boot.ini file since its going to move from an IDE to a SATA port instead. Or will windows update to file so win xp knows its moved from an IDE to SATA port?
 
Depends on your chipset.

If your using a nforce 4 and your using the native SATA ports, then no. The chipset "emulates" the SATA to an IDE port, so Windows doesn't need extra drivers or anything to play nice with the drive.

If your using a Silicone Image or PROMISE SATA chipset to use your SATA drive, then you might need to do a repair install on 'doze to get the necessary drivers in place.
 
Alternativly you should be able to install the drivers for the SATA controller before performing the Ghost.

Or if you can still boot to safe mode (which may or may not work) you can attempt to install the drivers from here. This worked for me once.
 
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