can linux save my life again?

[Mike Garfias]

der.hans spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 
> Do you want m$ on the SATA drive or on the IDE drive?
> 
> Theoretically, you can create a new partition, then dd the old filesystem
> onto it. The new partition has to be at least as large as what you're
> copying.
> 
> This works for Linux, but I wouldn't know from personal experience if it
> works for m$.

That would work to get windows on that slice, but wouldnt solve his problem of
getting the sata driver into windows.  I think there is some way to do that.
But don't ask me how, I haven't touched a windows box in 2+ years.