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byngo
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_ 		18. November 2008 @ 09:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi,
My system has my XP pro on a SATA IDE drive and I have a slave PATA IDE as well.
I wish to buy a new SATA HDD and use it for my OS.
I am going to image my C drive and then write that to the new SATA drive.
If I don't take out the original SATA HDD, how do I set the PC to boot from the new SATA Drive?
Reason being , im fault finding and there might not be anything wrong with the sata drive I have.
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PC Specs: CPU-C2D E8400, M/B-P5N-E SLI, RAM 4Gig OCZ Platinum rev2 ,VGA- Nvidia 8800GT 512MB, HDD- Hitachi Deskstar SATAII 1TB, 250Gig Maxtor IDE HDD.
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jony218
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 01:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you have to set your bios to boot from new sata drive. Most bios will let you choose which hard drive to boot from.

But when dealing with windows xp, you never want to boot up the computer with 2 hard drives with identical windows. This has been known to rewrite the registry and make both drives unbootable. It's best to just remove the original drive for safe keeping or format the original windows if you plan to reuse it as a slave (after you made sure new drive works).

the true image forums have very good info on possible problems you might encounter, they deal with true image backup software, but the problems apply to any software you might use.


http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65
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byngo
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_ 		19. November 2008 @ 13:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks,

All sorted thanks with no problems.
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PC Specs: CPU-C2D E8400, M/B-P5N-E SLI, RAM 4Gig OCZ Platinum rev2 ,VGA- Nvidia 8800GT 512MB, HDD- Hitachi Deskstar SATAII 1TB, 250Gig Maxtor IDE HDD.
Corsair HX520 PSU, Liteon Lightscribe DVD Writer, Pioneer BluRay drive.
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