can linux save my life again?

[Josh Coffman]

Windows does see the SATA drive and is installed on
it. The problem is the boot loader location. It is
currently on the IDE drive.

Also, I didn't leave room for a boot loader on the
SATA drive. (Again, wasn't thinking.) So I need to
move the windows partition on the SATA drive. How much
room should I give to the boot sector?

--- Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what version of windows you are using,
> but I was able to get
> XP to recognize SATA2 for install without third
> party drivers, so copying
> the image from the PATA to the SATA drive may
> actually work for your
> situation, provided you remove the PATA drive from
> the computer to ensure it
> doesn't pick it up first, or set your boot order.
> 
> If you are installing Fedora, then it will setup the
> boot record correctly
> on the SATA drive and the first time you boot into
> windows it will
> automatically read the SATA drive. I hope this
> helps. :)
> 
> Sincerely,
> Judd Pickell
> 
> On 6/20/06, Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
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