I'm getting a new SATA drive some time this week, and obviously want to move my windows install to it because it's new, and has an 8mb cache etc etc.
Except I have a terrible feeling that if I just ghost my PATA drive over onto the SATA and then mess about with partition magic as I have done in the past I will be left with a bunch of data on a SATA drive that is utterly unbootable.
Am I going to need a clean install so that Windows has the drivers for the SATA installed at a suitable level for booting?
If so then I spose I'll just have to create a slipstreamed windows disc with the SATA drivers on it (The floppy drive it dead, long live pretty much any other media format).
Uberlad
Except I have a terrible feeling that if I just ghost my PATA drive over onto the SATA and then mess about with partition magic as I have done in the past I will be left with a bunch of data on a SATA drive that is utterly unbootable.
Am I going to need a clean install so that Windows has the drivers for the SATA installed at a suitable level for booting?
If so then I spose I'll just have to create a slipstreamed windows disc with the SATA drivers on it (The floppy drive it dead, long live pretty much any other media format).
Uberlad
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