SATA drive problem

[sethhope]

I have a dell dimention 2600. It came configured for an IDE drive. I took the SATA drive out of my old computer and put it in the dell. I get the classic 7b bsod for no drivers. The only solution I could find was reinstalling windows on that drive, but that requires wiping the drive and I do not want to do that. The IDE has a working version of windows xp pro on it, and it recognizes the drive, but I need to boot from the sata. Is this possible/?? if so, how?

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to ExTS

 

 

I took the SATA drive out of my old computer and put it in the dell.

If you are wanting to boot from the SATA drive as you say then I am afraid that this will not be possible if you have an OS on the drive already.

Windows is "clever" enough to recognise that there is different hardware present ( motherboard etc ) and refuses to boot.

 

If you are putting XP on the SATA drive - XP does not have SATA drivers embedded and needs these installing before the installation of the XP OS.

 

If XP is already on it then it is possible to run a Repair Installation of the OS .

This will associate the installation with the new hardware and keep your files and data intact.

 

I can explain how to do this if necessary.

You will need a CD that is a full installation version and not recovery disks or OEM version.

[danzil]

Hi

XP does come with limitied SATA controller support, but as Ken B said XP is clever enough to know your drive is not fromt he orignal system.

i would suggest making sure in your bios that the SATA controller is set to IDE and not AHCI then run a repair install.

regards