SATA help....

stereomod · 20-May-05, 05:42 PM

i picked up a 80 gb WD SATA drive , and was wondering if i use ghost, will it copy everything from my IDE drive and over to my SATA drive? and will there be anything else that i will need to do?

Thanks

CubanConnectionZ · 20-May-05, 06:55 PM

Which drive is it the boot drive or the a drive with data on it?

stereomod · 20-May-05, 06:59 PM

boot drive right now, is IDE, wanted Boot HDD is the SATA 80 gb
, i found the files that i need to create a disk, now im just guttring this old PC for the floppy drive and cables

BigAkita · 20-May-05, 07:01 PM

Ghost works just fine between my SATA and PATA drives. It see's all of them.

stereomod · 20-May-05, 08:17 PM

BA if i ghost the main drive that i have which is the IDE channel, will it read the SATA controller on the drive after i ghost it? and will it boot up onto the SATA ? should i select SATA boot...

Sorry if im not making any sense but this is REA:LLY new to me and will try to understand the best that i can!

BigAkita · 20-May-05, 08:58 PM

You will have to make sure the Sata drives are registered with the OS first. Now here is where it gets tricky depending upon chipset... I would boot to the Sata drive using the XP CD and hitting F6 to install the driver, then create the windows partition and format it. Then before you install the OS reboot and boot into Ghost. Then copy the drive image over and try to boot.

Honestly, I have never had good luck changing drive interfaces. You are changing a whole lot of stuff when you do that. I now do a clean boot and restore an image of my data only, and reinstall all the apps. Of course, all the hard to find apps are backed up on the image.

stereomod · 20-May-05, 09:05 PM

yes BA the drive is registered in windows (just the one SATA drive) Partitioned and FAT is NTFS

but it reports an error when i goto load up the diskette, something about the xpclient???

EDIT looked up some info online, can i install an OS on ONE SATA HDD?

jhoop2002 · 21-May-05, 01:58 AM

BA, won't he have problems with the drive letters and how they have been assigned to the specific drives.
From reading through this it confused me cause won't he have all of his hard drives in the system before he Ghosts it?? So the SATA drives would not be drive C:. Normally that wouldn't be a problem on a fresh install, but wouldn't this cause problems cause he is ghosting drive c: to another drive and windows will look to drive c: for everything instead of the new drive??

BigAkita · 21-May-05, 08:36 AM

That can be adjusted in Windows. What I do is unplug the power from all other drives first, that way it is always picked up as C.

Stereo, yes. I have foregone RAID for a single SATA right now. Sounds like your driver isn't correct.

stereomod · 21-May-05, 05:33 PM

here is the pic that i took of the error that i get hopefully it helps you out some BA

20-May-05, 05:42 PM		#1 (permalink)
stereomod Locked Account	SATA help.... i picked up a 80 gb WD SATA drive , and was wondering if i use ghost, will it copy everything from my IDE drive and over to my SATA drive? and will there be anything else that i will need to do? Thanks

20-May-05, 08:17 PM		#5 (permalink)
stereomod Locked Account	BA if i ghost the main drive that i have which is the IDE channel, will it read the SATA controller on the drive after i ghost it? and will it boot up onto the SATA ? should i select SATA boot... Sorry if im not making any sense but this is REA:LLY new to me and will try to understand the best that i can! Last edited by stereomod; 20-May-05 at 08:57 PM..

20-May-05, 09:05 PM		#7 (permalink)
stereomod Locked Account	yes BA the drive is registered in windows (just the one SATA drive) Partitioned and FAT is NTFS but it reports an error when i goto load up the diskette, something about the xpclient??? EDIT looked up some info online, can i install an OS on ONE SATA HDD? Last edited by stereomod; 20-May-05 at 11:58 PM..

21-May-05, 05:33 PM		#10 (permalink)
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20-May-05, 06:55 PM		#2 (permalink)
CubanConnectionZ Apex Tech God	Which drive is it the boot drive or the a drive with data on it?

20-May-05, 06:59 PM		#3 (permalink)
stereomod Locked Account	boot drive right now, is IDE, wanted Boot HDD is the SATA 80 gb , i found the files that i need to create a disk, now im just guttring this old PC for the floppy drive and cables

20-May-05, 07:01 PM		#4 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer	Ghost works just fine between my SATA and PATA drives. It see's all of them.

20-May-05, 08:58 PM		#6 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer	You will have to make sure the Sata drives are registered with the OS first. Now here is where it gets tricky depending upon chipset... I would boot to the Sata drive using the XP CD and hitting F6 to install the driver, then create the windows partition and format it. Then before you install the OS reboot and boot into Ghost. Then copy the drive image over and try to boot. Honestly, I have never had good luck changing drive interfaces. You are changing a whole lot of stuff when you do that. I now do a clean boot and restore an image of my data only, and reinstall all the apps. Of course, all the hard to find apps are backed up on the image.

21-May-05, 01:58 AM		#8 (permalink)
jhoop2002 Apex Tech Maniac Supreme	BA, won't he have problems with the drive letters and how they have been assigned to the specific drives. From reading through this it confused me cause won't he have all of his hard drives in the system before he Ghosts it?? So the SATA drives would not be drive C:. Normally that wouldn't be a problem on a fresh install, but wouldn't this cause problems cause he is ghosting drive c: to another drive and windows will look to drive c: for everything instead of the new drive??

21-May-05, 08:36 AM		#9 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer	That can be adjusted in Windows. What I do is unplug the power from all other drives first, that way it is always picked up as C. Stereo, yes. I have foregone RAID for a single SATA right now. Sounds like your driver isn't correct.

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