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by courtjester

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Hi,
I have a Intel D946GZIS motherboard,CPU P4 3.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium D,1GB memory,60 GB Seagat barracuda Hard Drive,SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F,AOpen CD writer and running Windows XP Pro.
The Aopen cd writer is not connected yet because the mobo has only 1 ATA/IDE port which is occupied by the CD Rom and the Hard Drive on the ribbon cable as a result the writer remains unusable. I also have a new Maxtor 160Gb SATA Hard Drive which is not fitted, but I would like to fit and install it on the system and use it as a single hard drive because I want to make use of the CD writer.
So what I need to know is can I transfer the entire operating system and my saved files onto the new SATA hard drive after installing,Partitioning and formatting the same and run windows from the new drive if so how can I go about it.
Any help would be highly appriciated
Thanks
courtjester

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by hal 9000

If you do chose to Clone the IDE Drive to the SATA Drive you'll need to do a repair install to allow the OS to work as the SATA Drivers will not be present in the Boot Sequence.

What you need to do is fit the SATA Drive and then load the SATA Drivers from the Supplied Floppy and then you can clone the HDD with Herin's available for download here

http://tinyurl.com/fwa22

You need to use the Ghost utility from this Boot CD to clone the IDE to SATA Drive.

Then when that is finished you need to remove the IDE Drive fit the Optical drive and do a repair install by following the directions here

http://tinyurl.com/g4bv8

When the first Windows Blue install screen appears press the [b]F6[/b] key to install the SATA Drivers and then allow the system to load normally. Note that the SATA Drivers need to be at the Root of a Floppy as the Windows installer can not look through folders for them or anywhere else but on a floppy so you may need to temporally fit a floppy just to do this bit of the install procedure.

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