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I wonder if the problem was that I used the Ghost "copy drive" function?
I don't think drive letters are stored anywhere on a drive, but I
could never get away from the SATA drive being recognized a drive F:,
even when I eventually had the original boot IDE drive disconnected. I
guess Windows must have set a registry key (DOSDEVICE?) which persisted
even when I eventually had just the SATA drive connected.
Clearly, it's important to get all the steps exactly right when doing this.
What is the rule that Windows uses to determine whether the partition
that it booted from is C: or some other letter?
-Pat
Harald Trasti wrote:
> Yes , it works. You have to ghost the boot IDE drive to an image on another
> IDE/SATA hard disk or CD/DVD. Then, connect the SATA drive. Disconnect the
> original boot hard disk. Use Ghost on a Floppy to restore image from the
> hard disk (CD/DVD) to the newly installed SATA drive. It will turn up as
> drive C, complete with all programs etc. To do this safely, I use 3 hard
> disks, and preserves the original IDE drive untill all works. The procedure
> does not work when IDE drives run in enhanced mode in BIOS, at least not
> with GOST 2003. This is easely fixed in BIOS.
> HT
> "Pat Coghlan" <info@coghlan.ca> skrev i melding
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>>I'm running WinXP on the master of IDE channel 0 (C-drive).
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>>Does anyone have a procedure for Ghosting to a SATA drive and have it come
>>up as drive C: after rebooting by either physically removing the old IDE0
>>master or changing the BIOS configuration?
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>>Just FYI, I have a P4P800SE motherboard.
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