Hello all. Currently, my computer has 2 IDE drives (a 40Gb and 80GB) in it. The 80GB being the primary drive (with windows installed on it) and the 40GB being a backup drive. I just bought a new 160GB SATA drive and basically want to make that my primary drive. So, I'd like to migrate windows to this new drive without having to reinstall everything. Using GParted (an opensource clone of partition magic), I copied the contents of the 80GB drive to the SATA drive. I then changed the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive and that didn't work. How would I got about doing this? Thanks in advance

Put your SATA drive on secondary and take out the 40gb secondary and boot on the 80gb drive and run Norton Ghost 2002 or newer to copy all you system files and installed stuff to the new HDD. Doing this will also set up a MBR on the new HDD ready for booting in XP. Then when you have done you put the SATA HDD as primary and put the 40gb back-up back in and it should boot windows perfectly. Tell me how you go! Corey S

When you install a hard drive on SATA you need the controller chip driver, therefore the only way forward after cloning your drive is to undertake a repair install offering the SATA Drivers at start of install F6. This has been covered in previous postings and using the search feature at top of forum should ellicit the answer.