Moving Windows from IDE to SATA

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:15 am

blueznl wrote:I always smile when people talk about 'rebuilding'. Cases are so cheap these days that I'd rather buy an additonal case so that I in case of emergency could have both machines next to each other.

That depends on the case, At $120 USD I wouldn't call an Antec Nine Hundred exactly cheap. Besides, I have no use for two computers.

And by rebuilding, I ment reloading Windows from scratch.

I've never simply bought a new computer, I've always just upgraded it.

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:59 am

When I rebuilt XP onto SATA I ended up needing the motherboard driver and use the F6 at install to add the driver from disk otherwise I would either get "not fixed disks" error or only see IDE. I don't have the Sp2 CD either and XP sp0 only supports up to 128gb partitions so I install onto about 40gb then after SP2 is installed I can see the rest of the disk.

Shouldn't have anything to do with SCSI though, Serial scsi disks are SAS not SATA, SATA are S-ATA drives by definition.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:18 pm

pdwyer wrote:Shouldn't have anything to do with SCSI though, Serial scsi disks are SAS not SATA, SATA are S-ATA drives by definition.

That could be because of the design of my current motherboard (it's about three years old), the SATA controller appears as a PCI slot device based on the Silicon Image 3112 chip. Anyway, the SATA drives show up in True Image as SCSI drives.

In newer motherboards, SATA may be integrated into BIOS so they appear as IDE drives. Don't know but will find out when I get the new motherboard and start setting up the new system.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:04 pm

Many boards report them as SCSI devices, but it's a bit irrelevant, itsn't it?

For XP you simply need drivers.