John,
Some time ago, I have successfully switched my XP VM from IDE to SATA.
If I recall correctly, please try these steps: (please do back up your VM
first)
1.) Attach another disk using SATA Controller on the guest VM
2.) Boot the XP
3.) Download and install Intel Matrix Storage Driver, use the IATA89ENU.exe
from here <http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=17882>
4.) The second disk should be now recognized, try initializing it using
diskmgmt.msc
5.) Shutdown XP VM
6.) Move the boot disk to the SATA controller
7.) Boot the XP again, it should now work *crossing fingers*
If the above last step did not work, use MergeIDE from
here<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows>to reset the
IDE/ATA controller from the Windows XP.
Hope it helps.
Okky Hendriansyah
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]>wrote:
> John,
>
> On Tuesday 16 October 2012 08:44:47 John A. Wallace wrote:
> > One more question arises in regard to this, does Virtual Box provide
> > drivers for the SATA Controllers/Disks for Windows XP to use for
> attaching
> > one of these devies? I had thought that they would be in the guest
> > additions, but apparently not. The lack of native support for these
> > devices by Windows XP explains how I ended up with the IDE attachment,
> but
> > I do still want to move it to SATA. Thanks.
>
> VirtualBox does not provide Windows drivers to support SATA. There is
> no reason to do so. If the guest supports SATA then it will surely
> provide drivers for this hardware itself. VirtualBox does full
> virtualization, that is, the guest runs on virtual hardware and the
> VMM does not really care which guest it runs. The VirtualBox Guest
> Additions help certain guests to improve the communication with the
> VMM and the host by taking some shortcuts. This technique is also known
> as 'paravirtualization'.
>
> And regarding your original question: Yes, it would be possible to
> just create a disk, attach it to the virtual SATA controller and copy
> the data from the IDE disk to the SATA controller. But that means that
> you need SATA drivers for Windows XP from somewhere and that means also
> that you need to convince Windows somehow to boot from the SATA disk
> afterwards, which will be very difficult as Windows is stubborn when it
> comes to changing the disk controller of the system hard disk.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
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