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Grizly87   10-20-2010 at 10:47:19 PM

Hello,

I'm currently running Windows Xp sp3 on a Western Digital ide hard drive. If
I upgrade to Windows 7 will it have the drivers for a SATA hard drive if I decide to
replace the ide drive with a SATA drive?

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saint19   10-20-2010 at 10:56:50 PM

SATA drives or IDE drives don't need drivers unless that the OS will be XP SP2 or older.

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Grizly87   10-21-2010 at 12:13:28 AM

saint19 wrote :

SATA drives or IDE drives don't need drivers unless that the OS will be XP SP2 or older.



Hi,
Thanks for answering my question. So if I clone the ide hard drive with XP sp3 to the new SATA drive using Acronis 11, I shouldn't need any additional drivers for the SATA drive? My mobo is set up for both ide and SATA drives.

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welshmousepk   10-21-2010 at 04:58:13 AM

correct.

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saint19   10-21-2010 at 07:05:32 AM
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Grizly87 wrote :

Hi,
Thanks for answering my question. So if I clone the ide hard drive with XP sp3 to the new SATA drive using Acronis 11, I shouldn't need any additional drivers for the SATA drive? My mobo is set up for both ide and SATA drives.



U can clone it without problems since u don't change the mobo.

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Grizly87   10-22-2010 at 12:14:49 AM

welshmousepk wrote :

correct.



Terrific! I guess I will be replacing the Ide with the SATA. You saved me
a lot of time!

Griz

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Grizly87   10-22-2010 at 12:18:27 AM

saint19 wrote :

U can clone it without problems since u don't change the mobo.



Thats great! I've been putting off upgrading to the Sata drive because I've been reading that you need to make a image of the OS and then slipstream the sata drivers into it for the Sata drive to work. This will definitely save me a lot of time!

Thanks again!

Griz

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