NEW SATA DRIVE, OLD IDE Problem

connect the old drive on a machine which is compatible with that drive, then use your flash disk to transfer the files from the old hdd

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XP doesnt do it that way.

Maybe, but that shouldnt produce a BSOD.

Most likely its just booting off the IDE when its present.

Stockmoose16 <
Sounds like its trying to boot off the IDE when its installed.

Most likely the bios has been told to boot off the IDE and does
so when its present. When its not, it looks for other bootable
drives and boots off the SATA when the IDE isnt present.

See if you can tell the bios to boot off the SATA
drive. Likely the IDE drive is higher in the boot
sequence order. Move it below the SATA drive.

If you cant do that for some reason, you should be
able to wipe the IDE drive with something like clearhdd
if you dont care about its contents. Do that with just
the IDE plugged in with clearhdd on floppy etc.

What do *you* think if he previously booted from it?

Not with XP.

There may be something wrong with the structures on the drive.
That may not have been a problem when XP was booting from it
but may be when it is discovered as a data drive by XP.
A crash for that is excessive though.

You can also try obscuring the previous installation of XP on that drive,
e.g. by renaming the directory it's in, in case XP has a problem with that.

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Did your old drive have a primary or extended partition? Primary partitions
take precedence to secondary partitions for drive letter assignments. You
might be causing the drive letters to be rearranged when you boot up this
way, which would cause Windows to not be able to access any of its files
after it kicks past a certain stage in the boot process.

-Jeff

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Determined how exactly? Describe cabling and jumpers. Is the IDE drive
recognized normally by the BIOS during POST before the OS comes into play?
Is the IDE FAT[32] or NTFS? What happens when you try a w98se boot floppy?

--the system

What happens in Safe Mode?