Problems with SATA HDD

[Lesley]

OK I have got a bit further. There is nothing of use on Mfg's website.
Tried installing Windows XP with both drives connected (IDE and SATA). Press F6 when promted and put floppy in as instructed. Windows then recognizes SATA drive. Managed to get as far as copying WinXP files to folder (formatted new drive) but then system freezes. Each time I try, I get a little further (got to 52%). I am having to use install CD from my laptop as I can't find original from my PC. Could this be causing the problem or is it something to do with the size of the new HD (160gb)? Any ideas?

[Lesley]

OK got really fed up and disconnected SATA totally. i spent a few hours updating drivers (including IDE). When I switched pc on this morning (after reconnecting SATA) IDE hd loaded and lo and behold the SATA hdd showed up in My Computer (D drive). It is still formatted from when I tried to install Windows and has some but not all of the OS files. It does not allow me to partition it. How can I copy entire operating system from IDE to SATA?

[TurcoLoco]

OK got really fed up and disconnected SATA totally. i spent a few hours updating drivers (including IDE). When I switched pc on this morning (after reconnecting SATA) IDE hd loaded and lo and behold the SATA hdd showed up in My Computer (D drive). It is still formatted from when I tried to install Windows and has some but not all of the OS files. It does not allow me to partition it. How can I copy entire operating system from IDE to SATA?

You do not want to do this unless somehow manage to install the Serial ATA drivers for the OS while still on the IDE drive, if you don't you probably will not even be able to boot to the OS.

Well, I have not had the chance to read the entire thread but wanted to reply to your last post.

[Lesley]

Hi,
I appreciate that you all give your time and help for free and am very grateful for all the help I've had in the past (few years ago with freezing PC). I would have preferred though if you had said that you couldn't (or wouldn't ) help with my current problem. Thanks anyway!

[jholland1964]

Hi,
I appreciate that you all give your time and help for free and am very grateful for all the help I've had in the past (few years ago with freezing PC). I would have preferred though if you had said that you couldn't (or wouldn't ) help with my current problem. Thanks anyway!

Nobody here said they WOULDN'T help you. I made it plain in my first post to you that this was not my area of expertise. However, ~TL, cauzomb and Mathster have all tried to offer assistance and given some advice and suggestions so for you to say that we wouldn't offer assistance is just not correct.

[Lesley]

Sorry, no offence intended. As I said I am grateful for the help you give and I have a great deal of respect for all of you. I just felt as though my thread was left hanging a bit? Just feeling a bit down as I had to totally reformat and reinstal XP and lost a lot of files in the process (some where backed up, but not all). Sorry again!!

[jholland1964]

I just felt as though my thread was left hanging a bit?

~TL gave you a response to your comment in #12 in his reply #13 on August 22. You didn't respond to him until your response this morning, the 29th. Generally if the original poster fails respond to a reply or suggestion we have no way of knowing if that person is monitoring the replies or if the problem has been solved so we do not continue replying. We cannot respond to something unless we know the current standing of the issue and in this case, with no response from you for seven days we had to assume the matter was possibly resolved and further comment could have been damaging to others monitoring this thread with somewhat the same difficulties.

I had to totally reformat and reinstal XP and lost a lot of files in the process (some where backed up, but not all).

I am sorry you felt you had to reformat but if you had replied to ~TL's comment then maybe there could have been, I cannot say this for sure because as stated, I am not a "hardware person", but if you had replied back they maybe could have found you a way to avoid this.