Comments | interbadger: A question to techie types.

interbadger

A question to techie types.

Aug 30, 2007 18:35

On my machine, the IDE drive that I currently have as my primary is failing (C:), obviously threatening to take the OS with it and everythign else ( Read more... )

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theozzardofwiz August 30 2007, 22:41:36 UTC

Image to a new IDE drive, it's so much easier. Trying to get the boot drivers right for SATA will cripple you.

And do you *really* want your key files on a stripe set?

interbadger August 30 2007, 23:24:21 UTC

its a good point, sadly I don`t have a spare 250gig IDE drive to use, wonder if I can downsize an image.

smescrater August 31 2007, 09:08:02 UTC

I have partition magic that you can use.

PM can do a lot of funky things, not sure about imaging, but it can muck about with boot images and the like.

Ooor, I happen to have a spare (semi flakey) 250 GB external HDD.

You can compress/prune your data, bung it on that drive, and then format your SATA drives.

Oddly though, unlike peter I've never had a problem booting from SATA, I have two boxen doing it, one Windows 2003, one vista, both seem very happy with no additional drivers, even with a vanilla XP pre SP1.

theozzardofwiz August 31 2007, 09:40:56 UTC

You lucky, lucky bastard :-). Actually, thinking about it, this mobo is faking IDE on the SATA interface and Windows 2003 is taking it. So you might get away with it.

The problem I had was where I had *old* SATA drivers on an installation and the system was insisting on trying to boot from the drives on that hardware (which no longer existed).