Hi, I hope someone can help me with this incredibly frustrating problem…
I am trying to upgrade my 20GB Seagate IDE drive to a 200GB Maxtor Diamond Plus 10 SATA drive.
After installing the SATA drive I was able to boot into XP Home off the IDE drive and after formatting and assigning a drive letter in Computer Management I was able to see and use the SATA drive without any problems (although I was surprised Windows didn’t go throught the ‘Detected New Hardware’ routine).
Using Casper XP I cloned my IDE drive to the SATA drive (no errors reported) and then shut down the PC. On rebooting I went into the BIOS (Asus K8N mobo with AMI BIOS – flashed to latest non-beta version) and was able to see the SATA drive (although it detects it as being on IDE 3) when I make the SATA drive the primary boot device I am left with a flashing cursor in the top left of a black screen after the POST process and the boot process stops there. This happens whether or not the old IDE drive is still attached or not.
I then thought the problem might be related to SATA drivers (even though XP could recognise and use the drive fine when booed off the old IDE drive) – so I booted off my old IDE drive again and downloaded the MaxBlast 4 software from the Maxtor website. This software claims it will clone my old drive to my SATA one and prepare it as a boot drive. Well after going through cloning process again with the Maxtor software (no errors reported) I get exactly the same problem when I attempt to boot from the SATA!
Any new ideas would be gratefully received!
