A7N8x Deluxe and Large drives

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I have this board with original BIOS. Will it take a 200gb drive without
BIOS upgrade? Running up to date winxp pro.

Thanks

 

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"N Alley" <nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I have this board with original BIOS. Will it take a 200gb drive without
> BIOS upgrade? Running up to date winxp pro.

What version of the BIOS is it? They all came with different ones,
depending on when you bought it. I have a 250GB SATA (non-
RAID) running under XP pro (SP2) using BIOS 1007. Works fine
and needed no "48-bit LBA" tweaks because installing XP SP2 sorts
that little problem.
HTH
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Rob

 

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I'm curious how do you upgrade your existing hard drive to an SATA drive
with Drive Image or something similar? If you plug in the SATA drive, will
it boot of the IDE drive and "see" the SATA for the data transfer?

 

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"BiG Orange" <@charter.net> wrote in message
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> I'm curious how do you upgrade your existing hard drive to an SATA drive
> with Drive Image or something similar? If you plug in the SATA drive, will
> it boot of the IDE drive and "see" the SATA for the data transfer?
>
>
>

Acronis easy migrate or true image works fine, but true image requires the
backup be stored somewhere and then installed on the new drive. The only
problem I had (after swapping eide -> sata) was when I attempted to do a
"repair" much later, the original XP OEM cd was not sp2 or even sp1a, it was
an original "sp0" and could not handle the sata when booting and I had to go
find a floppy that had the driver.


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"Beemer Biker" <joestateson@grandecom.net> wrote in message
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> "BiG Orange" <@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:M7zLd.1658$od7.315@fe06.lga...
> > I'm curious how do you upgrade your existing hard drive to an SATA drive
> > with Drive Image or something similar? If you plug in the SATA drive,
will
> > it boot of the IDE drive and "see" the SATA for the data transfer?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Acronis easy migrate or true image works fine, but true image requires the
> backup be stored somewhere and then installed on the new drive. The only
> problem I had (after swapping eide -> sata) was when I attempted to do a
> "repair" much later, the original XP OEM cd was not sp2 or even sp1a, it
was
> an original "sp0" and could not handle the sata when booting and I had to
go
> find a floppy that had the driver.

Best way to avoid that is to make a 'slipstreamed' XP SP2 CD before
you move to the new drive. A google search will find many detailed
"how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
search term.
HTH
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Rob

 

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Rob Hemmings" <rkh@NOSPAM.le.ac.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
> search term.

Great info, thanks.

 

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:02:36 -0000, "Rob Hemmings"
<rkh@NOSPAM.le.ac.uk> wrote:

>Best way to avoid that is to make a 'slipstreamed' XP SP2 CD before
>you move to the new drive. A google search will find many detailed
>"how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
>search term.

Or do a search for 'AutoStreamer', it's a program that does the
slipstreaming *automatically*.

Cheers,

Guy

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with democracy, spend five minutes with
the average voter." - Winston Churchill

 

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"Dr Teeth" <no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:02:36 -0000, "Rob Hemmings"
> <rkh@NOSPAM.le.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >Best way to avoid that is to make a 'slipstreamed' XP SP2 CD before
> >you move to the new drive. A google search will find many detailed
> >"how to make an XP SP2 slipstreamed CD" sites, if you use that as the
> >search term.
>
> Or do a search for 'AutoStreamer', it's a program that does the
> slipstreaming *automatically*.

Thanks for that, Guy - much less to type next time.
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Rob