Is it possible to ghost an IDE xp install to SATA?

[AtreuS]

Ive been using an 80gb IDE drive to hold my windows xp and im wondering if its possible to ghost it to a SATA drive and it still work. The board is the one in my sig and ive tried doing a test run with an xp sp2 install to see if it finds the drive... it does. So the xp pro sp2 can find the drive meaning it has drivers for the SATA controller.

If i was to remove the current IDE controller drivers from the install, then ghost it and start it up on the SATA drive do you think XP would pick up the SATA controller and let me carry on? i would try it but i dont have a spare IDE drive to make a backup with first and i could do without the pain of a full reinstall to test it.

I have ghosting software that sees both drives ( booted from cd of course ) so the actual ghosting isnt a problem.

So had anyone ever done this before and how did it work out?

 

[gareth170]

depends what sata mode it's on in the bios, if it on raid then no, if its on ida-sata mode then yes it should work...

 

[Green-Peace]

depends what sata mode it's on in the bios, if it on raid then no, if its on ida-sata mode then yes it should work...

Not true!
You just simply need too add the SATA RAID drivers too a custom boot cd/dvd so that ghost can then see the array. Admittedly not as easy but very do-able if your a bit computer savvy!!
I have done this many times on customer rigs that run raid without any issues/problems.

 

[RobH]

Not true!

Sort of true, if the SATA in in AHCI mode (sometimes called native mode) then it probably won't boot because XP doesn't support AHCI by default. There will always be a BIOS option to allow normal mode on it, just check the BIOS settings beforehand.