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Ive never used imaging, I should look into it. In this particular instance, I wanted to have a fresh clean install of XP to start over with.

Thanks Ponch, it worked. I plugged the IDE drive back into the board and left the jumper as cable select. I set the boot order CDROM, SCSI, HDD0. Turned it on and it booted the OS on the C partition on the SATA drive. The CDROM was assigned D, the DVD - E, and the three partitions on the IDE were given F (the old C), G and H.

Sorry, I could have explained it better. I disconnected the IDE drive before I did the new load of XP Pro on the SATA drive. I'm installing from the original program cd. With the IDE still disconnected, the partition with the OS on the SATA shows up as C. I want to now re-connect the IDE drive so I can transfer files to the SATA and use the IDE as backup until I can replace it with a new SATA drive. The IDE still has the OS system on it that I've been using up til now. I'm not sure what will happen when I connect both drives and boot the machine. Someone has suggested I just need to change the jumper on the IDE drive to slave to make the SATA OS boot first. I assume that if the SATA OS boots first then the partition on the IDE drive with the OS (old C partition) will be automatically assigned a new drive letter.

Hi all, I'm new here and was hoping someone can help me out. I have an older Asus A7N8X deluxe mb with an 80GB IDE drive with XP Pro on it and a second 80GB SATA drive I use for storage. The IDE drive is starting to show signs of old age so I want to move the OS to the SATA drive. I don't want a dual boot configuration. I'll eventually replace the IDE drive with another SATA for storage. I started by clearing the SATA drive and created a 20GB primary partition for the OS and left the rest of it unallocated. I'll decide how to set up the remaining space later. I finally got the OS to load on the SATA drive after much screwing around with getting the SATA drivers to load during the OS load. I have disconnected the IDE cable from the board so there would be no conflict with the existing XP loaded on the IDE drive. I'm not sure what to do next. 1. Do I plug the IDE drive (jumper is on cable select) into the secondary IDE connection and move the CD and DVD drive cable to the primary connection? 2. My boot order is CDROM, SCSI, HDD0, the rest. When I created the primary partition on the SATA I called it H drive, since C was already in use. Will the H partition on the SATA be automatically assigned as the new C when I boot up the machine, and the old C with the original XP load be assigned another drive letter? I don't know if I'm approaching this the right way. Thanks