Dual boot system on IDE drive (WinXP/7) upgrade to SATA drive

HarryDash · Apr 16, 2013

I cloned my 500Gb IDE drive to a 1Tb Sata only to find that I cannot boot to the XP OS. I have researched the forums and understand that I need the Sata drivers for XP to recognize the Sata drive running in AHCI. I have not tried resetting my BIOS to IDE.
My Win 7 installation runs 100%.
1) Can I load the drivers to my original installation of XP and then reclone??
or
2) Can I load the drivers into my recent cloned XP OS??
or
3) Am I installing the drivers directly to the SATA drive??
Bit confused......
I have an ASUS P7H55 mobo, WD IDE HDD and a Samsung SATA 2 3.0Gb/s. The mobo supports both types of drive without need of a PCI card.
Cloning via Avanquest partition commander.
I would like some specific instructions please, if that's not too much to ask.

dingo07 · Apr 16, 2013

why even bother dual booting when you have 2 drives -install fresh on one of them and use a boot loader

Chicano · Apr 16, 2013

R: to your 1) Q: You can't install SATA drivers on a IDE hard drive, they won't install.
R: to your 2) Q: You can't load SATA drivers into XP from Win 7.
R: to your 3) Q: I failed to understand your question.

Possible solution: Set your BIOS to IDE mode, and see if you can logon to Windows XP*, if possible, install the SATA drivers, restart and set the BIOS back to AHCI.

*If you can't logon to cloned Windows XP, you will have to find a way to repair install it (BIOS in AHCI), and install the SATA drivers during the repair, OR repair install it (BIOS in IDE Mode), and install the SATA drivers from repaired Windows XP, then restart and set the BIOS to AHCI.

Edit: I would agree with Dingo07, but you'd need the Windows XP CD which you apparently don't have(?)... but you may have to get a hold of one cause the XP setup may not work otherwise... but since Win 7 did work, there's a chance XP will if the motherboard is closely similar to the old one.

HarryDash · May 25, 2013

Chicano :

R: to your 1) Q: You can't install SATA drivers on a IDE hard drive, they won't install.
R: to your 2) Q: You can't load SATA drivers into XP from Win 7.
R: to your 3) Q: I failed to understand your question.

Possible solution: Set your BIOS to IDE mode, and see if you can logon to Windows XP*, if possible, install the SATA drivers, restart and set the BIOS back to AHCI.

*If you can't logon to cloned Windows XP, you will have to find a way to repair install it (BIOS in AHCI), and install the SATA drivers during the repair, OR repair install it (BIOS in IDE Mode), and install the SATA drivers from repaired Windows XP, then restart and set the BIOS to AHCI.

Edit: I would agree with Dingo07, but you'd need the Windows XP CD which you apparently don't have(?)... but you may have to get a hold of one cause the XP setup may not work otherwise... but since Win 7 did work, there's a chance XP will if the motherboard is closely similar to the old one.

HarryDash · May 25, 2013

Sorry it took me a while to respond. Thx for your help.
I did change the BIOS to IDE and was able to boot into XP. I could not find a clear website location to download the necessary drivers and any instructions on how to load them.
Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, I do have the XP cd but prefer to keep my system configured the way it is, Everything works perfectly and I am a believer in 'If it ain't broke don't fix it'....

Chicano · May 25, 2013

HarryDash :

Click on the Asus link, select the Downloads tab, Select your OS, expand the files found list, click on SATA, and click on the download link. You can install the SATA drivers when beggining a Repair installation with the F6 key from a floppy disk, a USB pendrive, or install the drivers from a Windows session (in IDE mode), and next restart the computer to configure the BIOS for SATA/AHCI mode. BTW a Repair-Installation doesn't change your Windows settings.

Asus P7H55 driver downloads
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P7H55/#support_Download_17

babydoll5747 · Sep 26, 2018

In SATA drive you will get a high-speed transfer because it will parallel cable connection. In case of IDE drives you will not get much because they use different types of connection. If you want to install win XP and win 7 you can easily do it if you install it on different drives. Contact Epson Customer Support if you any kind of information.

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