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Switch from IDE to SATA on a Win XP install?

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I installed Windows XP on a SATA hard drive in IDE mode. (I did this accidentally, I wanted to install SATA drivers, and had them all slipstreamed nicely into my WINXP CD, but had my SATA set to IDE in BIOS.) Is there any way I can change the mode to SATA without having to do a clean install?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 BE
ASRock A780GXE/128M
4GB Transcend DDR2-800
640 GB WD SATA-2 HDD

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Read the post from Steve dated August 22, 2008 at 5:28 pm. You should probably read all posts. Hope it works for you!

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