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One of the better posts I've seen on this topic
Now, can anyone shed some light on why it is recommended that Windows be
installed on the SATA vs Ghosting from the original IDE drive?
The trick (for me) is to have the new SATA drive appear as drive C:,
which I haven't been able to achieve yet, even if I disconnect the
original IDE drive.
What's the relationship between the drive that Windows was originally
installed on and the physical location (IDE 0 master, SATA0 etc.) of the
drive?
-Pat
johns wrote:
> Holy cat. !!! Stop !!!
>
> Put your SATA drive on the ZERO SATA connector
> ( drive 0 ). Put your cd/dvd on the SECONDARY
> ide channel .. put NOTHING on your PRIMARY
> ide channel. The cd/dvd drive should be set to master
> ... and probably is by default. Do not slave ANYTHING
> to your cd/dvd drive. If you have a ZIP drive, throw it
> in the garbage can. It will walk all over both your SATA
> and your cd/dvd. Use USB drives for anything else ..
> like a backup drive.
>
> Now, you need to make a floppy with the SATA drivers
> on it that came with your mobo. Call tech support at
> the place where you bought the mobo, and get them to
> tell you how to make the floppy. You are going to have
> to copy those files off the mobo drivers cd to the floppy.
>
> Since your SATA drive does not have an OS on it, the
> OS install cd will boot by default. Leave the BIOS
> settings alone. As the install cd boots, hit F6 and tell
> the install disk that you wish to install the SATA drivers.
> Follow instructions that will come up later in about
> 5 minutes.
>
> After the OS has installed, and you are up and running,
> try accessing your spare drive. If it is an ide drive, slave
> it to the cd/dvd temporarily to copy off files. If it is an
> old SATA drive, put it on SATA drive 1 .. no jumpers.
>
> Listen carefully .. !!! ... When you ask for advice in this
> news group, read all the posts until you figure out who
> is a pro in the field, and not just speculating. With a
> SATA boot drive in your system, NEVER put anything
> on your primary ide channel. You will ball up all kinds
> of unsuspecting things that appear to work at first, but
> will fail during use. You will corrupt the SATA driver,
> and there goes your data .. or a $$$ trip to the pc
> store to let a teenager play with things and make
> excuses.
>
> johns
>
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