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Thread ID: 147756	2019-04-04 08:01:00	Second SATA drive showing in BIOS but not in XP Pro disc management	straka01 (310)	Press F1

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1459754	2019-04-04 08:01:00	My wife's PC has been running Win XP Pro fully updated on a 1TB SATA drive for the last 10yrs or so. Recently S.M.A.R.T. has notified that the drive has turned BAD. So we bought a new 2T SATA WD Blue drive and connected it with the aim of cloning the old drive onto the new one. Sounds easy but... although the drive was visible in the BIOS it wouldn't show up in DISK MANAGEMENT! I read various articles online and decided it needed formatting before it would be seen. To do this I unplugged the old 1TB drive and just left the new 2TB drive attached then I rebooted from the XP Pro disc. That allowed me to format the new drive. I stopped the PC when it wanted to reboot to finish installing, connected the old drive again and restarted. Thought that now the new drive would be visible - but no it still wasn't showing in DM. So I fully loaded XP OS on the new drive thinking that would help - but it didn't. Don't know what to do to get both drives visible in XP so I can clone the old one. Any suggestions appreciated. BTW, the new WD Blue 2TB drive came without any discs / drivers etc. It seems odd that although this PC has been running from a SATA drive for years - it can't see a new SATA drive in the OS.	straka01 (310)
1459755	2019-04-04 08:26:00	There's several reasons, could be any of them ( been a while working in XP), XP doesn't have the inbuilt drivers for SATA, XP also unless it has SP3 wont see a 2TB drive & be formatted in NTFS. ccm.net Cloning via a working XP is not really recommended. What I'd do is boot from partition or cloning software, 1st create one 1TB partition and format it, see if XP now sees the other drive, if it does then the 2TB is to large. Clone Via the bootable CD.	wainuitech (129)
1459756	2019-04-04 17:34:00	There's several reasons, could be any of them ( been a while working in XP), XP doesn't have the inbuilt drivers for SATA, XP also unless it has SP3 wont see a 2TB drive & be formatted in NTFS. ccm.net Cloning via a working XP is not really recommended. What I'd do is boot from partition or cloning software, 1st create one 1TB partition and format it, see if XP now sees the other drive, if it does then the 2TB is to large. Clone Via the bootable CD. It does have SP3 installed so that's good. Which cloning software has the facility to boot from it? I'm not familiar with cloning - never done it. When you say to create a 1TB partition - do you mean on the 2TB drive? Surely if it then 'sees' this new 1TB partition why can't I use that to clone too? How do I clone via the bootable 'XP' CD? Is that what you mean? Thanks for your reply.	straka01 (310)
1459757	2019-04-04 19:27:00	When you say to create a 1TB partition - do you mean on the 2TB drive? Surely if it then 'sees' this new 1TB partition why can't I use that to clone too? XP has restrictions, depending on the drive format, 2TB may be to large. Could also be a case you need to change the BIOS to ACHI Have a read windows-xp-setup-could-not-detect-and-find-any-sata-hard-disk-drive-on-ahci-mode/ (techjourney.net) There's often several things that can cause problems, you have to remember that XP is close to 18 Years old, so new hardware may not always work on such a old system. You have to be careful about cloning, one wrong action can result in wiping everything (been there done that) For partition work I generally use www.disk-partition.com But I have the Pro version as well. You install it, then in the menu theres an option to create bootable media. OFTEN cloning will fail for various reasons. Normally I will use an image instead, Active@disk Image www.disk-image.com The Free one you can install, and make an image to a backup location, the 21 day trial allows you to make a bootable CD as well ( heres a hint the CD whern created says its 21 day trial but in fact if wont expire). What you can do is make an image, unplug the working drive, then boot from the CD and try to drop the image back onto the 2TB, may or may not work.	wainuitech (129)
1459758	2019-04-04 21:04:00	It seems odd that although this PC has been running from a SATA drive for years - it can't see a new SATA drive in the OS. Not that odd at all :) Long obsolete OS, Long obsolete motherboard, long obsolete bios, long obsolete drivers You may be better off with a 1Tb HD . Try updating the drivers in XP. Try updating the bios (there is some risk). Dont try & 'clone' from within XP WD has 'cloning' software as a free download. Download , burn to CD, boot off CD . Choose the manual mode. Auto sometimes gets things wrong (ie what drive you want copied & overwritten) You want disk to disk copy (or whatever they call it), 'clone' is a differnet animal . Clone will work but may take a very long time docs.microsoft.com(v=vs.85)#removablemedia	1101 (13337)
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