Hi!
I'm going to migrate my windows XP install to a new hard drive. I have a freeware prog for doing that: http://www.bootitng.com/copywipe.html. So that part is sorted.
The problem I have is I'd like to go from PATA to SATA. The copy of Windows in question has SATA drivers that were installed after installing windows since the drive is PATA.
So I'm wondering will Windows XP pro be able to use those SATA drivers when it's booting up on the new SATA drive? I don't know if there's any technical difference between SATA drivers installed during windows-install (the F6 thing) and SATA drivers installed later.
EDIT: I haven't bought the HD yet and I'll settle for PATA if it won't work. I just don't want to buy the SATA and then be forced to reinstall everything.
Thanks!
Tom
I'm going to migrate my windows XP install to a new hard drive. I have a freeware prog for doing that: http://www.bootitng.com/copywipe.html. So that part is sorted.
The problem I have is I'd like to go from PATA to SATA. The copy of Windows in question has SATA drivers that were installed after installing windows since the drive is PATA.
So I'm wondering will Windows XP pro be able to use those SATA drivers when it's booting up on the new SATA drive? I don't know if there's any technical difference between SATA drivers installed during windows-install (the F6 thing) and SATA drivers installed later.
EDIT: I haven't bought the HD yet and I'll settle for PATA if it won't work. I just don't want to buy the SATA and then be forced to reinstall everything.
Thanks!
Tom
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