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Hi, I'd like to move XP from an EIDE drive it's currently installed on to a SCSI drive. Any files that need to be edited so that the transferred image on the SCSI will boot up correctly? TIA...
You might have to edit the boot.ini file. It depends on where the BIOS will place the SCSI channel in relation to IDE, and the device ID of the drive. (The MS Recovery Console has a tool that'll do that for you, assuming you have the SCSI drivers for the Recovery Console.)
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Are you aware that you cannot 'move' an XP drive to another drive? You can copy the drive to another drive, but the replacement drive has to become the same letter as the original. So if the IDE drive is C:, after the copy you must make the SCSI drive C: and make the IDE drive some other letter.
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Thanks for the prompt responses. The EIDE drive will be removed once I've imaged XP to the SCSI drive. Single partition on both drives. It's a pretty straight forward deal, I'm just wondering if XP would even boot because it now having a controller different than the one it was originally installed with. BTW, the SCSI controller is an Adaptec Ultra 19160 which XP has drivers for and recognises...
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Do you really mean a SCSI drive or a SATA drive? Whan brand is it?
Woops! I'm a little late with that one. The only thing you could do is try. I'm guessing that if XP has the drivers it would find the new hardware and boot but you would have to reactivate it. Let us know.
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I mean SCSI. It's a Hitachi 73 gig, ultra 160 10K rpm 68 pin drive. Just out of curiosity, why would the brand of hard drive matter? TIA...
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Most major brands have cloning tools for this purpose. Just as you probably know by now as you probably already used it. I know Maxtor has one that I used for my sisters computer a couple of weeks ago. Although it said that you have more luck cloning from eide to eide drive than like you are doing.
Please come back and tell us what happens though, I have never experimented with SCSI drives before.
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Thanks again! I use Ghost (can't remember which version, it's a couple years old though) and regularly image the drives on my my SCSI drived PCs to a second drive in a removable tray (cold swap). This particular PC was initially set up with an EIDE drive because I needed cheap drive space. However, the user (my wife) complained about how slow it is compared to her old ultra 160 SCSI drive and rather than upgrade to SATA which I know is a better bargain than SCSI, I thought I'd keep things simple and just stick with a technology and hardware I'm familiar with...
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tobijohn if you ghost to the scsi it will not boot. You have to run a repair install and provide the scsi controller driver during that update install. You will keep your apps [trick is do NOT boot with the ide in the system! Drive letters will be reallocated depending on what system boots. This is bad].
The repair install and driver update will modifiy the registry and boot so that xp loads correctly.
You will need to redo your service pacs.
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