Hello,
I presently have a 80 gig ide drive as my "C" I purchased a Western Digital SATA 160 gig drive to replace it. I have made the necessary changes in the bios and it does see it, however, the installation allways stops telling of a critical error. I have two original copies of Windows XP with their own serial numbers and tried the second. I tought maybe the first had a problem with it, it did exactly the same thing. I cannnot even reinstall or repair the present 80 gig drive as it gives me the very same error. I have tried using the disk that comes with the dd to make a copy but it is slugish and programs no longer respond properly. I also have a 500 gig WD as a slave and it is partionned into three drives. Can it be that the ide and sata drives have problems working together? I use the second drive for MyFiles, MyPictures etc so that if the C goes I will not loose everything.
