Re: Transferring XP to SATA from IDE

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:55:59 GMT, John <John@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now boot into your SATA XP and check that all is OK including testing
all apps. If it won't boot then do an XP fixmbr repair, you can Google
for that. If it still won't boot then SATA drivers may not have been
installed properly, do an F6 repair with SATA drivers at hand on floppy,
you can Google for that as well.

If you intend to use the IDE as a data drive in the same comp, for
insurance, power off and reconnect it but boot from the Acronis CD and
make sure that *none* of the partitions on the IDE drive are marked as
active. Things may or may not work properly with more than one active
partition but just one should always work.

John

Thanks for a comprehensive solution. In my Asus A8V bios, there is a
boot sequence which only gives, Floppy, CD, HD or none. There is no
option to boot into SATA first. Is there a way round this please?
.

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