Cheemag Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 I have an XP Pro installation which is screwed up and I want to reinstall. I have 160GB SATA and 320GB IDE drives. Not always a good idea to mix IDE and SATA, but hopefully ... How, during the reinstall, do I ensure that the SATA device becomes the C: and the IDE one the D: ? How do I jumper the IDE drive and does it matter which of the two connectors on the flat IDE cable is connected to the drive ? Regards, Jim Quote Regards, Cheemag
Jelly Bean Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 Hello Jim.... If you are installing on the SATA hard drive then just disconnect the IDE drive until your fully installed and up and running with windows... Shut down the computer and reconnect the IDE drive..... You can make the IDE drive D drive once you have logged onto windows via Computer Management.... How to set jumpers on the IDE drive depends on what make and model it is...Do you know the make and model? Quote Rwy'n ceisio fy ngorau......................
KenB Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 Hi, If you are installing XP onto a SATA drive you will need to install SATA drivers during the install process. Unlike Vista and Win7 - XP does not have SATA Controller Drivers on the installation disk. This was usually done from a floppy drive - but if you don't have a floppy drive then the normal method obviously cannot be used. It is, however, possible. See Here Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
Cheemag Posted November 15, 2011 Author Posted November 15, 2011 Hello Jim.... If you are installing on the SATA hard drive then just disconnect the IDE drive until your fully installed and up and running with windows... Shut down the computer and reconnect the IDE drive..... You can make the IDE drive D drive once you have logged onto windows via Computer Management.... How to set jumpers on the IDE drive depends on what make and model it is...Do you know the make and model? That's what I did and the problem is solved albeit at the expense of a re-install of the system and the programmes I had on the computer. The jumpers were set to Master without slave and the BIOS set to boot from the SATA drive. Thanks for your input. Quote Regards, Cheemag
Cheemag Posted November 15, 2011 Author Posted November 15, 2011 Hi, If you are installing XP onto a SATA drive you will need to install SATA drivers during the install process. Unlike Vista and Win7 - XP does not have SATA Controller Drivers on the installation disk. This was usually done from a floppy drive - but if you don't have a floppy drive then the normal method obviously cannot be used. It is, however, possible. See Here With older PCs possibly, but this worked without any of that. It's a fairly recent student edition of XP Pro so maybe had the drivers on the CD. In any case, I'd have thought the BIOS would have taken care of handling SATA drives, it certainly recognises and services them. Quote Regards, Cheemag
KenB Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 I'd have thought the BIOS would have taken care of handling SATA drives, Even if the BIOS does recognise the drive as being SATA the OS needs to know too. It could be that your BIOS is configured in Legacy Mode. If this is the case then the Drive will be viewed as PATA - not requiring any drivers. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
Cheemag Posted November 15, 2011 Author Posted November 15, 2011 Even if the BIOS does recognise the drive as being SATA the OS needs to know too. It could be that your BIOS is configured in Legacy Mode. If this is the case then the Drive will be viewed as PATA - not requiring any drivers. It must be then that the drivers are included on the OS install disc. Either that or the BIOS is configured as IDE-capable - certainly it finds and identifies the IDE disc. Thank you for your help. Quote Regards, Cheemag
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