"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas DeleteThis @salmiron.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Currently I am running all PATA drives. The operating system drive is
> failing and I will be taking delivery of a large SATA drive to replace
> it.
>
> I do not wish to go through the fag of re-installing the operating
> system and all the associated programs (the last time took the best part
> of a week of spare time).
>
> I propose to use either Norton Ghost 2003 or a Seagate tool to copy the
> whole disk across. My query is about installing the SATA drivers.
>
> Can I safely install these before copying the disk, even though I do not
> currently have a SATA drive installed and boot from a PATA drive.
> Having copied the disk across the intention is then to boot from the new
> SATA drive?
>
> There are two other PATA drives which will remain in place.
>
> Motherboard: AX8
> Operating System: Windows XP Pro (SP2)
> File Systems: NTFS
> --
> Nicholas David Richards -
>
> "Oł sont les neiges d'antan?"
As long as you install the SATA drivers first it should work.
I just did the same thing on an Asus board using BootitNG, (very handy and
free to use for partition work).
I just had to make the SATA drive active and was able to boot straight into
it.
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