SATA HDD question
 

System: ABit KV8 PRO m/b
AMD 64/3000+
SATA WD400JD HDD
IDE WD1200JD HDD
1 gig RAM
OS = Win2000 Pro
I think that's all that's pertinent, let me know if more info is needed.
The question is: whenever I try to start the system with the SATA HDD
connected, it stalls at the windows loading screen (logo one, with radio
bar). My hope was to 'ghost' the contents of the IDE HDD to the SATA one
and move the IDE to another machine. Admittedly, this is my first attempt
at SATA, so I'm a bit of a novice there. Oh yeah, when the SATA is
diconnected, machine fires up as normal. I know I'm overlooking something
really obvious, but damned if I can see it. The SATA drivers are
installed...any ideas????

Re: SATA HDD question
 

"chuckie®" <chuckie@email.com> wrote in message
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> System: ABit KV8 PRO m/b
> AMD 64/3000+
> SATA WD400JD HDD
> IDE WD1200JD HDD
> 1 gig RAM
> OS = Win2000 Pro
> I think that's all that's pertinent, let me know if more info is needed.
> The question is: whenever I try to start the system with the SATA HDD
> connected, it stalls at the windows loading screen (logo one, with radio
> bar). My hope was to 'ghost' the contents of the IDE HDD to the SATA one
> and move the IDE to another machine. Admittedly, this is my first attempt
> at SATA, so I'm a bit of a novice there. Oh yeah, when the SATA is
> diconnected, machine fires up as normal. I know I'm overlooking something
> really obvious, but damned if I can see it. The SATA drivers are
> installed...any ideas????

I had this problem when I installed a SATA HD and tried to "Ghost" (Acronis
actually) over an image of my C drive onto it. I presumed that it was
because the mbr was not being transferred (but really don't have much idea
about it). I got the hanging at the screen you mention and also some
nonsense about a missing hal.dll on other attempts. In the end I installed
windows on the SATA drive and then "Acronised" over my image and that has
worked fine since. I expect there are more elegant solutions.