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Hi Im running 2 ide hdd's= 1 20 gig /1 120 gig.I installed Hitachi Deskstar sata hdd 160 gig,xp picked it up no problem.I can use it as storage BUT i want to make the sata into my main drive ie:C drive.Is this possible?I tried drive image and was a disaster.Problem is games like bf2 and their patches,i need a much bigger C drive as mines full.any ideas? please remember Im a bit of a noob even though I built this pc successfully.
my specs:AMD 64 3500+ NEWCASTLE
2 GIGS CORSAIR RAM
ASUS A8N SLI DELUXE MOBO
BFG 6600 GT VID CARD
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i want to make the sata into my main drive ie:C drive.Is this possible?I tried drive image and was a disaster.
Drive image is not going to give you the result. Remember that WinXP does not natively detects SATA - it needs drivers to be loaded beforehand to see any thing on SATA.
If you want more space on your C drive, then either you can reformat/reinstall on SATA or you can try to mount the SATA drive in one of your folders in C drive.
In response to Steve Jones: it seemed everything was ok.I unplugged the old 20 gig hdd and had the sata as only drive.I got:failure loading OS on bootup.I tried to reinstall windows but when it came time to enter cd key it would not recognise my keyboard ,actually any of my 3 kb's.I finally just unplugged it and went back to my old setup of 2 ide's and everythings back to square 1
