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Thread ID: 78700	2007-04-25 07:02:00	XP/SP2 on SATA upgrade on W2K on IDE	Tom McB (832)	Press F1

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544218	2007-04-25 07:02:00	Hi team. I wish to upgrade from W2000 (installed on a soon to fail 120GB IDE hdd) to XP SP2 (on a 150GB SATA hdd). I have installed the SATA drive and W2000 sees the IDE as C: and the SATA as E: (cdrom is D:). Can I simply disable the IDE from BIOS, put the XP cd into the cdrom and proceed with the setup? Do I have to unplug the IDE first and boot from SATA (already formatted as NFTS from within W2000) ? The reason I ask is because I wish to switch to W2K/IDE until I complete the XP/SATA setup, sort of a hardware dual boot process. I do not wish to dual boot on the IDE drive as it is failing. Is this possible? Many thanks T Intel PX865PE Pro 2.8Ghz 1GB ram GeForce Ti4200 Seagate IDE 120GB Seagate SATA 150GB	Tom McB (832)
544219	2007-04-25 07:12:00	It'll be better, if u do a clean install (boot from the XP CD). It'll give u the option to format or partition it in XP's setup. Then try and install XP onto the SATA. Then u may or may not need the SATA drivers, so the XP setup detects the SATA. On some systems with SATA hdd's installing XP shouldnt be a prob, and XP will install no prob at all. However, on other systems, the SATA drivers need to be extracted from the mobo cd to floppy, then installed during the install of XP (by pressing F6) during the XP install. It should be OK if u unplug the IDE (and disable it in the BIOS), and keep the SATA connected.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
544220	2007-04-25 07:28:00	Thanks Speedy. I tried to disable IDE from BIOS; should the PC boot from disk or cd? For some reason it was trying to boot from the onboard lan and hanging? Cheers T	Tom McB (832)
544221	2007-04-25 07:41:00	Thanks Speedy . I tried to disable IDE from BIOS; should the PC boot from disk or cd? For some reason it was trying to boot from the onboard lan and hanging? Cheers T Turn the computer off, unplug the IDE, it'll disappear from the BIOS anyway, once u unplug it . Then go into the BIOS, change the bootdisk to CD, chuck the XP cd in . Hopefully the XP CD is bootable (should be) . then reboot . I'll start loading, you should see a message on the post screen, saying press a key to comtinue, or something, so press any key . It'll take u to XP's install screen . This is where (it'll hopefully) detect the SATA, and give u the option of reformatting the SATA again / and or partitioning it . After 3-4 reboots, if everything is fine, XP will be installed . NOTE: Everytime it reboots, dont touch anything, it'll continue to install XP . ie: Dont press a key after after reboot, or it'll start all over again (from the start) . Until it has finished installing XP . After it has finished installing XP, reboot then go back into the BIOS and change the bootdisk to the SATA . Then save the BIOS settings . Thats it . XP is installed!	Speedy Gonzales (78)
544222	2007-04-25 07:45:00	Cheers, Speedy. Will try that later and let you know how I get on. Regards T	Tom McB (832)
544223	2007-04-25 07:54:00	The Intel 865 chipset was one of the first to offer native SATA support thus making OS installations onto SATA drives a lot easier! Assuming you haven't got one of those new fan dangled SATA optical drives, disabling the IDE controller will mean that you can't use the CD-ROM. Your best bet would be to simply remove the 4 pin power connector from the IDE hard drive, do your WinXP install and then power up the IDE drive whenever you need it.	Pete O'Neil (6584)
544224	2007-04-25 08:03:00	That could be true Pete. A previous post I posted in here, a mate is using a VIA chipset. What a hassle to get Windows 2000 on the SATA! The floppy he had in the case, later he found out was stuffed. The BIOS wouldnt detect the SATA, but the RAID setup did (altho he didnt want RAID). Then I gave him a link to the latest ASUS SATA drivers. He extracted them to floppy (after replacing it). Then for some strange reason, even tho the 2K CD was in the cd, and the SATA drivers were on the floppy, it was trying to find files on D (which werent on the 2K CD or the floppy obviously). So, in the end I told him to install another cdrom, and put the mobo cd in it. And voila. The 2K install / setup finally decides to detect the SATA! And he finally got 2K on the SATA.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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