Cannot Clone From Ide Drive To Sata Drive In Pc

[s.stormont]

We have a number on new PCs that are using the Intel D865GBF motherboard. These PCs currently have installed a Seagate ST340014A (40GB) hard drive. (all drivers and devices are detected) We want to install Seagate ST380817AS (80GB) drives in them. We first tried using Ghost 8.0 to perform the cloning procedure. The cloning worked perfectly fine (all drives were detected fine and the cloning worked great). However, when we try and boot the PC from the SATA drive, the initial Windows 2000 startup screen appears (white with the blue bar) and then freezes at about 50%. If you try to boot in safe mode, it only makes it to agp440.sys before freezing.

We then tried putting both the IDE drive and the SATA drive in a different PC and used Ghost 9.0 to perform the operation. Again, the clone worked fine, but when you place the SATA drive back in the original PC and try and boot from it, the PC freezes in the same place.

We then also tried Acronis True Image 8.0 and got the same result (clone works fine, but Windows freezes).

Since the cloning works, I guess it must not be a Ghost problem, so my question is, what steps are people who clone from an IDE to a SATA drive in the same system taking? Since it's on the same motherboard, it can't be some sort of HAL issue, right?

Steve

[bruce_code_ADS]

Hi,

In my experience with this sort of stuff, you'll need to boot into Windows off the 40Gb ATA drive, add the device drivers for the SATA, then clone the drive. You should probably be right then.

Normally when you are installing XP/2000 from CD, right at the start it asks you to press F6 to install addition SCSI/RAID drivers. This would usually be where you install the drivers for your SATA. I have, however, had success with adding the driver by the method I mention above.

HTH

Regards,

Bruce

[s.stormont]

Pressing F6 when you install Windows is only to install the SATA RAID drivers, not the actual SATA drivers, correct? This is an 865 board that doesn't have RAID and I can't seem to find any sort of standalone SATA drivers for it.

The computer has the Intel INF version 6.3.0.1008 installed and all devices are correctly identified in Device Manager. Device Manager reports 2 x Primary IDE and 2 x Secondary IDE connections, as well as two other connections which I can't remember right now, so I assume that the SATA drivers are already installed.

Steve

[bruce_code_ADS]

Hi Steve,

I can't guarantee this to be correct in you case, but for my SATA/Install, I had to press F6 to add the SATA drivers at install time regardless of whether I used the RAID aspect of it or not. My RAID is controlled by the BIOS, but I have to install SATA drivers at install for 2000 to even see the drive(s), let alone install.

HTH

Regards,

Bruce

[s.stormont]

Figured it out:

As I mentioned, I have a number of PCs with the Intel D865GBF motherboard in them. All PCs have Windows 2000 SP4 installed on them and all have the Intel INF 6.3.0.1008. I was able to get the cloning process to work on 2 of the PCs.

When we move a drive to a new system, we follow the steps listed here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314082

I found one of the PCs on which I was able to successfully clone from the IDE drive to the SATA drive and looked at the versions of the files listed in the article above. They were:

atapi.sys 5.0.2195.6699

intelide.sys 5.0.2195.6666

pciide.sys 5.0.2195.6655

pciidex.sys 5.0.2195.6672

The versions on the PCs that weren't cloning were older versions, even though the same service pack was installed and the same version of the chipset INF. If I copied those 4 files to one of the PCs that wasn't cloning and then tried to complete the clone again, it worked!

So know I'm trying to figure out what installed the update version of those files on the PC that worked. One of the recommended Windows 2000 updates?

Steve

[The-VOICE]

As your machines become more diverse, you should probably consider Sysprep.