Re: [H] Switching SATA to PATA

2005-05-01 Thread FORC5
undocumented feature been there, etc, etc. :-} At 07:59 AM 5/1/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: Finally I just reinstalled Windows on the PATA drive. Thanks MS. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- It is so much better to live rich than to die rich.

[H] Switching SATA to PATA

2005-04-29 Thread Thane Sherrington
I'm trying to ghost my system from the current SATA drive to a PATA drive (I'm moving the SATA elsewhere.) It clones fine, but when I boot XP Pro, it restarts (even in safe mode) during the Windows boot up. Surely I can get the thing to boot from a PATA even with SATA drivers installed -

Re: [H] Switching SATA to PATA

2005-04-29 Thread FORC5
boot to the SATA controller and update the IDE controller drivers back to standard, may re detect and boot. FWIW I have had good luck going PATA to SATA but not in the other direction for some weird reason ( XP ? ) :-} At 11:28 AM 4/29/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: I'm trying to