Hi,
I bought a new hard drive for my existing XP SP2 system, and would obviously like to *use* it. The drive is an S-ATA II device and there are four devices already attached (and working properly) to the IDE controllers.
My XP installation apparently lacks SATA drivers, because attempting to boot with the bios exposing the drive natively leads to a BSOD, even though I'm not booting from the new drive. I set the bios to emulate the drive as an IDE device ("S-ATA drive mode") and I'm then able to boot into XP. I don't really care that performance will suffer from this IDE emulation; I just want to get my data moved over, as I plan to install the latest Win7 release afterwards (and get rid of some old disks).
The problem is that the new drive doesn't show up as another volume in XP. The drive is detected in the bios and even shows up in device manager, where it says "this device is working properly" and reports it as being at "Location 0 (0)" on the "General" tab of the properties dialog. On the "Volumes" tab, after clicking the populate button, it says disk 0, type unknown, status not initialized, partition style not applicable, and there are no volumes. I tried the "update driver" button, but it doesn't find anything.
Does anyone have any idea how I should proceed from here?
The only thing I can think of really is to download Win7, which of course has S-ATA drivers, burn it to a disc, set my bios to run the new drive natively, boot from the CD and install it on the new drive. But as I haven't tried Win7 yet I'm a little worried if I would for any reason need to go back to XP later. :|
